So, there are a couple of reasons to use CloudFlare, but I suspect that the reason that a lot of people are doing so is to deal with DDoSes, which are hard to deal with otherwise.
Like, my home instance, lemmy.today, doesn’t use CloudFlare, so it isn’t affected by a CloudFlare outage. But…it was also knocked offline for a few days about a month back by a DDoS.
A lot of major sites do depend on CloudFlare, so they probably aren’t going to have a horrendous amount of downtime — like, any issue that comes up is probably gonna have a lot of engineers banging on it pretty quickly.
Say it with me again: your server does not need middlemen that can break your stuff whenever they feel like it.
So, there are a couple of reasons to use CloudFlare, but I suspect that the reason that a lot of people are doing so is to deal with DDoSes, which are hard to deal with otherwise.
Like, my home instance, lemmy.today, doesn’t use CloudFlare, so it isn’t affected by a CloudFlare outage. But…it was also knocked offline for a few days about a month back by a DDoS.
A lot of major sites do depend on CloudFlare, so they probably aren’t going to have a horrendous amount of downtime — like, any issue that comes up is probably gonna have a lot of engineers banging on it pretty quickly.