Cloudfare benefits

We will have some very, very good benefits:

I know we discussed this already, I forgot during the server discussion, I was sort of negative about Hetzner.

1) We will hide our real ip address behind Cloudflare’s.

This means that Hässig will not find out that our server is at Hetzner, but he only finds out Cloudfare.

This guy now knows that we are at Hetzner.

• Yes, but we will have different abuse reports in the future. We need to think about them, not about this one. Here the problem is fixed.

Yes, but abuse reports to Cloudfare.

• This is not a problem. They are not strict.

So Cloudfare tells us to go away,  and we switch the DNS to another provider, and which one?

Another company like Cloudfare?  or directly to Hetzner?

• CloudFlare don’t care about abuse reports. They will not tell us to go to another provider. They are just a DNS hosting, so it is not a problem for them. We never had single email about abuse report with Cloudflare.

New place means new DNS provider. The server remains at Hetzner.

• No, new place means that we will keep our DNS provider (CF) and different server outside hetzner. Probably OVH France.

• Good

Do we still need CDN?

Yes maybe because the images are not on Hetzner physically.

• If we will get it for free, why not. It is faster than normal CDNS, because they prefetch the data due to that they are DNS provider, too.

1 year ago our sys guys did the procedure “in case of emergency”. They tried to setup a new server from the backup, using cloudflare and backups from the French server. They managed to start the new server and be accessible with one site, which was 50gb in about 15 minutes. This is perfect.

Block bots using Cloudflare

• Go to the Firewall tab and then firewall rules and create a firewall rule

• Enter the rule name
• Select Field as User Agent, Operator as contains and value as the bot name you want to block
• Use the or condition to add multiple bots in a single rule

• Then select action as block and deploy