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I can't recommend Cloudflare enough. It has become a critical service to me. It recently helped me out a ton when bot traffic increased dramatically out of nowhere. I was getting hit 5 million times a week by one type of bot alone and Cloudflare's automated bad bot detection completely mitigated it with a single click. It has also been my experience that automated traffic has become so much more sophisticated in recent years.

[AndrewStephens]

Cloudflare is a great service but I hate that I have to use it due to factors beyond my control.

I was disappointed that Cloudflare didn't automatically detect the traffic as malicious but feeding the bots a captcha almost completely mopped up the problem.