Show HN: Just Fucking Use Cloudflare – A satirical guide to the CF stack (justfuckingusecloudflare.com)

I find their SQL database’s latency to be absolutely unusable, though I haven’t tried in a few months. Otherwise I agree, great free tiers for what I’ve used it for.

Imagine the CEO of CloudFlare coming to the thread to tell you he doesn't like the free marketing.

As dumb as it sounds, I've witnessed a similar thing not long ago, lol.

(Different company, not CloudFlare. I really like CF.)

I'm on POOH stack. htmx, OCAML, OpenBSD, and Postgres

Four years ago I was a reluctant maintainer of a Cloudflare workers setup. At the time, my thoughts were “Cloudflare is not my app, yet because of these workers, it’s performing business logic, which doesn’t feel right. I want Cloudflare to just be a dumb shield preventing DDOS attacks.”

Now that I’ve used it for a few years professionally, my opinions are much more nuanced and hard to put into words. Cloudflare’s products are mostly pretty good, and the cost savings are very attractive. You just have to be willing to work at their level.

i prefer using Cloudflare as a WAF and CDN and run my stuff on prem on my Homelab with cloudflared facilitating internet pass through

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Or choose one dedicated server and just pay ten times less for everything.

How about no.

Cloudflare is a cancer interjecting itself into all sorts of communication I'd rather have directly with the other party, like my bank, email, blogs, health providers etc.

Gatekeeping the broader internet from people in poorer countries, people using VPNs etc.

I predict they will be the first pushing DRM blobs instead of html/js and killing the open web.

Get out of here with this slop.

My understanding is that S3 egress is only a problem if you need to take data out of AWS, which you can simply avoid by having some kind of dedicated AWS direct connect or some such to route the traffic yourself?

Or you could just, ya know, rent a $5/mo VPS? For "your shitty todo app" it will work fine, has predictable scaling, and a built-in hard spend cap. Except you're not locked in to one particular "corporate overlord", because you can run it on literally thousands of different providers.

I love Cloudflare, I just wish they did container stuff for when I need it.

I love Cloudflare. A lot. But I don't love that they refuse to address the fact their cloud has a single fault zone.

Customers can not, no matter how hard they try, build highly available services using Cloudflare.

They are quite proud of it too if you read the smugness in their blogs about having just 1 region: Earth... Yet they keep having global outages.

I can no longer recommend them.

CF is the internet cancer right now and one day they'll start the squeeze. Just go with someone else unless you want that future. There are other providers for DDoS protection (as a bonus they're not known for protecting criminals themselves). There are also cloud providers for various services, or you can go with VPS/dedicated.

On a technical level, their support is really bad. They want you to do all the debugging and data collection like they have no access to anything - until you start escalating. I experienced that multiple times.

"Just fucking x" is so incredibly lame, only ever regurgitated by the biggest clowns of the industry who need the mental bumpers of this simplistic approach to software development. Can you imagine how 'real' engineers would look having equivalently teenage websites about things like concrete makeup? You embarrass us.

I fucking hate that Cloudflare has taken over, their captcha is broken for me on my main browser for years.

I cannot get past it, I click the checkbox, the page reloads and presents the captcha again. Reported as feedback hundreds of times by this point, nothing changed, cannot find out if it's some combination of extensions within my browser. The only way is to fire Chrome (which I hate using) to access some sites when it's strictly needed.

Fuck Cloudflare.