Jun 08, 2020 · The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (of Technology) (om.co) 47 Posted by msmash on Monday June 08, 2020 @04:05PM from the how-about-that dept. If our social platforms are going to be gatekeepers, then they need to acknowledge their role in the information ecosystems.
CloudFlare, good or bad? May 29th, 2016 , 4 min read If you’re a developer like me and you spent some of your time on Reddit or StackOverflow, you probably might have encountered some articles about CloudFlare last week, like CloudFlare is ruining the internet (for me) and CloudFlare is ruining Stack Overflow for me with its recaptcha . Cloudflare Bot Management uses machine learning and behavioral analysis of traffic across their entire network to detect bad bots while automatically and continually whitelisting good bots. About Bots Yes, Cloudflare Free is good. It is a reliable DNS service with some other features (free too): * Security: block malicious traffic * CDN (caching): cache your site content in their global servers to improve page loading speed * Speed: optimize yo Jan 20, 2020 · So I set up 2 different rules. One for Known Bots which as I’m understanding it allows in all good bots and then under it I made another rule for bad bots Assuming that first it will look to see if its a good bot then look to see if it’s a bad one. (is that correct thinking?) But it is allowing Semrush Which is on the bad bot rule. Am I misunderstanding? Sep 23, 2019 · Today, Cloudflare challenges over 3 billion bot requests per day. Some of those bots are about to have a really bad time. How Cloudflare Fights Bots. The cost of launching a bot attack consists of the expense of CPU time that powers the attack.
Dec 02, 2018 · Cloudflare is loved by millions of website to decrease the web page load time and protect from online threats including DDoS. If you heard Cloudflare for the first time then here is one liner. Cloudflare is a CDN (Content Delivery Network), and Security Company helps small to enterprise business to supercharge and secure the online assets.
Cloudflare outage caused by bad software deploy (updated) Starting at 1342 UTC today we experienced a global outage across our network that resulted in visitors to Cloudflare-proxied domains being shown 502 errors (“Bad Gateway”). Using Cloudflare’s bot protection technology, AngelList has experienced lower latency and faster performance, since the decision handling (the process of distinguishing between good and bad traffic) is supported at Cloudflare’s edge instead of the origin.
May 23, 2016 · So, Cloudflare protects your site by filtering out bad requests and only referring the good requests, which allows your server to respond much more quickly. Ostensibly , this improvement in site speed is enough to cause a boost to your search rankings, though it will certainly depend on how much of a boost there was.
Jun 23, 2020 · There is a lot of opportunity at Cloudflare and the business is doing extremely well. The executive team is humble, passionate, and dedicated to making Cloudflare a great place to be. The company went public in 2019 so they're in an in-between stage of start-up and moving into a more mature company. So far the good far outweighs the bad, although I am beginning to suspect bad neighbors could certainly negatively influence ranking. We have a few comparisons ongoing. We will know for sure in the coming months. I only wish Cloudflare would take a higher stance about which sites it is willing to get in bed with. Mar 20, 2020 · Cloudflare is a hugely popular CDN, but by no means is the only option available to you. So I’d encourage you to do your research, learn more about Cloudflare and what it offers, compare it with other CDNs, and then go with the CDN that best fits your site’s needs.