Worth a read & watch re Cloudflare

[rcjordan]

https://robindev.substack.com/p/cloudflare-took-down-our-website

Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay 120k$ within 24h

[ergophobe]

>> Make backups of your configuration on Cloudflare.

Sad to say, I have not done this, though it's obvious I should.

I have wondered for quite some time how vulnerable using Cloudflare makes someone. For the small sites I deal with, it would be a much smaller deal. Mostly I'm using the DNS features and get some protection from bot attacks.