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Looking for a Cloudflare alternative
I am quite satisfied with Cloudflare but we are unable to get the Visitor's IP address as we haven't purchased the Enterprise plan.
Are there any providers that support
Therefore we are looking for a Cloudflare alternative which has the following features:
- Dynamic content delivery
- WAF (Web Application Firewall)
- DDoS protection
- HTTP/2 support
- Compression
- Cache Control
- Visitor IP must be visible/recoverable
Are there any providers that include these features in lower tier plans?
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@curator you don't need Enterprise plan to get visitors real IP.
Just install this ▶ mod_remoteip
https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170786-Restoring-original-visitor-IPs
Secondly, there's a header CF-Connecting-IP
Provides the client (visitor) IP address (connecting to Cloudflare) to the origin web server.
This header will only be sent on the traffic from Cloudflare's edge to your origin webserver.
So if you are using cPanel stats then you can view original visitor IP.
According to cloudflare:
Alternative is ddos-guard, stormwall.network, or bunny.net
Did you follow this guide ?
https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170786-Restoring-original-visitor-IPs
it works fine for me !
Have you searched for this issue on Google? I'm pretty sure you can restore original visitor IP for every CF plan: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170786-Restoring-original-visitor-IPs
@JasonM @marian @momkin
Thank you for your suggestions. I followed the linked documentation before considering a provider change but unfortunately it only returned a private IP. Perhaps I've done a mistake in the process?
I've updated my answer above with additional sentence. pls. check.
Private IP or Cloudflare IP? If is a private IP, maybe you have a load balancer in front of your server?
https://qbine.net not all your requirments but nice to take a look.
Thank you, I'll try that and see if it works.
I'll DM you regarding this. Thank you!
Thanks, but it looks like they're mainly focussing on EU sites.
CF-Connecting-IP cannot be a private IP.
If you see Class E IPv4 addresses (first octet between 240 and 255), toggle off Pseudo IPv4 option and you'll get their real IPv6 address.
X-Forwarded-For may contain private IP because there could be another proxy adding this header before the request reaches Cloudflare.
This sounds promising! Thanks a lot. I'll keep you guys updated!
Your already got help above
If you will still need something else or someone is coming from google (this thread topic will surely get a lot of clicks from Google Search) I can recommend:
Cloudflare is still the best free CDN offer and if you tweak a little it will be enough for 90% of usecases. Cloudflare Page Rules (in free plan you can use 3 rules) can give you boost in security and speed. Main benefit of Cloudflare is that you don't need to pay for traffic - you can get 2TB/mo in free plan and it will work fine. No other free CDN can do it.
I recently tried the tips mentioned above and they worked. Thank you very much.
Unfortunately I am only able to see the IPv6. Is it possible to check the IPv4 without turning off IPv6 support?
DDoS Guard is your alternative, with a free plan. Don't search more, unless you can spend money.
You get ipv6 addresses from users connecting via ipv6
I understand but don't they mostly still use an IPv4 tunnel to access the web?
Actually your system prefers IPv6 for sending data
QUIC.cloud is worth looking at too, just out of beta mind.
Bunny CDN was mentioned a couple of times here. Do they have a WAF now?
QUIC.cloud is my go-to for non-cloudflare sites
No, if they connect by IPv6 you get IPv6
No, almost no one does
They don't unfortunately.> @Jio said:
Thanks for clarifying!
You may have been confused by the cloudflare fake IPv4-IPv6 thing? For backward compatibility (but somewhat useless) they kind of hash the IPv6 and provide you 4 generated numbers that look like a IPv4 but have absolutely no bearing in reality. To support those that truly can't handle a : anywhere
Possibly! I'll stick to using the IPv6 now. This should make things easier.
https://www.psychz.net/cdn.html
Have 50% recurring discount, so 1tb is $5, waf is included.