[ricardbejarano]

I know a lot of people here don't like Cloudflare, but they provide a solution to the "HN hug of death" mentioned above for free.

Whenever you expect to get a traffic spike, you can always turn proxying on for a day or two and turn it off afterwards.

[jagged-chisel]

Does the HN crowd not like Cloudflare? If that's the case, why not?

[big_chungus]

Most of the "HN crowd" like cloudflare a lot, as it's quite convenient, especially for personal projects. There are a few very vocal people who dislike it for all kinds of reasons: taking down too much, not taking down enough, centralization, etc.

[ricardbejarano]

> There are a few very vocal people who dislike it for all kinds of reasons [...]

I'll have to agree, there are few but very vocal.

[jlg23]

Privacy. Cloudfare-users hand a lot of their clients' data to a third party.

[esotericn]

They terminate TLS for you.

[notduncansmith]

They can, although they support end-to-end encryption as well.