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Why pay for anti-ddos when cloudflare has a unmetered free plan?
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Why pay for anti-ddos when cloudflare has a unmetered free plan?

Just curious why anyone would pay for extra anti-ddos protection? Is there a catch with the cloudflare free plan?

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  • Cloudsflare is only http/https unless you’re an enterprise customer.

  • Cloudsflare is only http/https unless you’re an enterprise customer.

    This also includes wildcard dns entries.

  • Could you please tell me what that means?

  • dfmcvndfmcvn Member
    edited September 2018

    Cloudflare only protects Layer 7 (HTTP/HTTPS 80/443).

    No other ports like MC server 25565/UDP or CS:GO 27015/TCP.

  • @dfmcvn said:
    Cloudflare only protects Layer 7 (HTTP/HTTPS 80/443).

    No other ports like MC server 25565/UDP or CS:GO 27015/TCP.

    and as @smile said, also no wildcard dns entries

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  • You should pay out of principle.

  • @dfmcvn said:
    Cloudflare only protects Layer 7 (HTTP/HTTPS 80/443).

    No other ports like MC server 25565/UDP or CS:GO 27015/TCP.

    I wonder how game server anti-ddos works. As far as i know, the "checking your browser" is anti-ddos savety measure. That cant work with game servers.

  • borgqueenx said: I wonder how game server anti-ddos works.

    It doesn't.

    dfmcvn said: No other ports

  • NeoonNeoon Community Contributor, Veteran

    Because, Cloudflare free sucks and its just for web applications.

  • jsgjsg Member, Resident Benchmarker

    You ALWAYS pay. We've learned that with Google, facebook and others. Sometimes the price you pay is that you and your data are the real product. Ples "free" often means badly reduced rights.

    So the real question is HOW and how much you are willing to pay and what you get for it.

  • @vovler said:

    @dfmcvn said:
    Cloudflare only protects Layer 7 (HTTP/HTTPS 80/443).

    No other ports like MC server 25565/UDP or CS:GO 27015/TCP.

    and as @smile said, also no wildcard dns entries

    Actually CF has wildcard DNS :p but it wont proxy through CDN, must pay for it.

  • @dfmcvn said:

    @vovler said:

    @dfmcvn said:
    Cloudflare only protects Layer 7 (HTTP/HTTPS 80/443).

    No other ports like MC server 25565/UDP or CS:GO 27015/TCP.

    and as @smile said, also no wildcard dns entries

    Actually CF has wildcard DNS :p but it wont proxy through CDN, must pay for it.

    If you read into the context, I just say that they don't protect wildcard dns entries against ddos attacks, I have never said that they don't support them.

  • If you're going for paid plan, it would be better to use Sucuri.

    CloudFlare Pro plan costs $240/year

    Sucuri’s basic plan $199/year

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