Do Not Put Your Site Behind Cloudflare if You Don't Need To

I don’t know how else to say it. Many people keep talking about the importance of a decentralized web, and then continue putting their site behind Cloudflare.

Maybe that’s the core of this message. Face your fears. Put your service on the internet. Maybe it goes down, but at least not by yet another Cloudflare outage.

As they say in security, “no one will burn a zero day on you!”. For your small blog with one hundred visitors per month, it’s probably the same: “no one will burn their DDoS capabilities on you!”