Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to

kept by eddie nov 19, 25

Putting your site behind Cloudflare introduces a single point of failure and unnecessary risk for sites that don't need its DDoS or CDN benefits.

Cloudflare outage causes error messages across the internet | Internet
A Cloudflare outage caused widespread error messages across the internet for several hours before the company resolved the issue.
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Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout
Iran's IPv6 connectivity dropped to near zero during protests, while IPv4 also briefly dipped, indicating government-imposed censorship.
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Matt Webb argues that effective AI agents require continuous, pre-planned movement of context from creation to use, akin to plumbing.
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