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This isn't true, though. Or at least it's not true if you want a free, set-it-and-forget-it solution, which people do for hobbies and side projects. You might want to take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21719793, which is a story about somebody who started out trying to avoid CloudFlare and eventually had to surrender because there was no other way to keep his site online against attackers.

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> There are many less inhumane ways of treating clients than CF does.

>> This isn't true, though.

What??

Also, you are probably missing my point: it's not like sites don't need protection, it's the unfriendliness of how CF implements it.

Well how would you do it, then? It's not like CF hasn't thought about this a lot. Spam deterrence has been a problem since the start of the internet. It's clearly not an easy problem to solve.

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