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DO NOT PUT YOUR SITE BEHIND CLOUDFLARE IF YOU DON'T NEED TO

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Summary from the TLDR Dev newsletter

A recent Cloudflare outage took down many websites, showing the risk of relying on centralized services as single points of failure. Many smaller websites don't actually need Cloudflare's DDoS protection and are unnecessarily exposed to its potential downtime. Instead of Cloudflare, it's possible to just use a round-robin DNS setup with a backup server for true redundancy.