Cloudflare Fails to mitigate DDoS Attack, Enabling "Verified Bots" doesn't block deindexing it
For the past years, I believed Cloudflare was a trustworthy company, and have seen it as an example in the field. Highly ethical, always on the edge of innovation, full of competent people, great market coverage.
I even started slowly racking up stocks on Cloudflare beginning in 2019 due to this. But since then, I've seen more and more articles about how Cloudflare failed for them.
I've shrugged off the employment drama because a company needs to stay profitable and sales in Enterprise B2B is hard and requiring.
I've shrugged off the casino complaining of being dropped off Business plan when they were bypassing ISP limits and affecting the Cloudflare IP Trust and generating issues for other customers.
Now what should I believe when I myself have my whole site deindexed in a critical period for us (we're now leading in sanctioning the Govt. for a corruption case for mismanagement of EU funds, and Google is how people found about us)?
I've got DDoSed (Layer 7) quite heavily, I thought Cloudflare mitigates out of the box, but I was wrong. It doesn't, most of the requests (or at least plenty to overwhelm our backend server) were going through. Not DOS, DDOS. Hundreds, if not thousands of different IPs.
We managed to resolve and mitigate the attack with Super Bot Fight Mode which "detects bad bots". We allowed "Trusted Bots", which seems not to cover Google, Bing, Yandex bots via IPv6.
I haven't complained of extra usage that was billed on Workers / Pages, it was negligible. I didn't complain of extra usaged on D3, it was negligible, ~1$ per hour and we mitigated it fast with Super Bot Fight Mode.
But I am highly skeptical that Google will maintain us on #1 page after we answered 403 on our most important pages for days on end. We know we got deindexed, how google will treat the resolution of the 403s, not sure.
Screw cloudflare. We got Cloudflare for stability and for it's reputation. It seems things have changed since we started using them heavily.
I even started slowly racking up stocks on Cloudflare beginning in 2019 due to this. But since then, I've seen more and more articles about how Cloudflare failed for them.
I've shrugged off the employment drama because a company needs to stay profitable and sales in Enterprise B2B is hard and requiring.
I've shrugged off the casino complaining of being dropped off Business plan when they were bypassing ISP limits and affecting the Cloudflare IP Trust and generating issues for other customers.
Now what should I believe when I myself have my whole site deindexed in a critical period for us (we're now leading in sanctioning the Govt. for a corruption case for mismanagement of EU funds, and Google is how people found about us)?
I've got DDoSed (Layer 7) quite heavily, I thought Cloudflare mitigates out of the box, but I was wrong. It doesn't, most of the requests (or at least plenty to overwhelm our backend server) were going through. Not DOS, DDOS. Hundreds, if not thousands of different IPs.
We managed to resolve and mitigate the attack with Super Bot Fight Mode which "detects bad bots". We allowed "Trusted Bots", which seems not to cover Google, Bing, Yandex bots via IPv6.
I haven't complained of extra usage that was billed on Workers / Pages, it was negligible. I didn't complain of extra usaged on D3, it was negligible, ~1$ per hour and we mitigated it fast with Super Bot Fight Mode.
But I am highly skeptical that Google will maintain us on #1 page after we answered 403 on our most important pages for days on end. We know we got deindexed, how google will treat the resolution of the 403s, not sure.
Screw cloudflare. We got Cloudflare for stability and for it's reputation. It seems things have changed since we started using them heavily.
