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by jonathantf2 1110 days ago
Cloudflare doesn't proxy all applications, just HTTPS.
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It can e.g. magic transit. Might cost a lot more and might not work as good, but you can.
Magic Transit is priced for the enterprise, out of reach for for a big chunk of the cheap VPS market: Minecraft servers and gaming in general, common DDOS targets.
Correct yes - although having used a provider that used Magic Transit as protection I can safely say it's a terrible option.
> I can safely say it's a terrible option.

Can you elaborate?

Compared to other mitigation providers there were very few filters, and when you were under attack it just seemed to throttle your whole connection to as low as 50Kbps, meaning players would disconnect.
Magic Firewall exists now which is pretty powerful a la wire shark filters if I remember correctly. Otherwise MT filters are pretty good now. However I have encountered a few cases where a valid connection may drop depending on how sensitive your application is but pretty rare.
It can't block most attacks. This was a few years ago though. Maybe it's better now.