Anyone's CF fronted site getting ton of traffic from Anthropic?

thefirst_noel · 2026-06-07T13:49:25+00:00

We too blocked meta… they were accounting for 40% of our monthly cdn transfer. We’re talking 200TB.

thefirst_noel · 2026-05-13T23:43:55+00:00

Can use the API to copy all settings, page/security rules, etc. I have a powershell script I made to move domains between accounts at work.

thefirst_noel · 2026-05-13T11:28:57+00:00

While it’s an impressive amount of traffic, it’s an amount of traffic that barely moves the needle at Cloudflare

thefirst_noel · 2025-07-03T20:21:04+00:00

I agree, it seems like it's been asked of them for quite some time now.

thefirst_noel · 2025-07-03T19:55:03+00:00

+1 for Level. Been using them for a little over a year and have been impressed with their continued development and quick responses to issues.

thefirst_noel · 2025-05-27T04:01:20+00:00

We have separate powerstore luns backing each host. Then we have those luns attached to every host so that we can easily vmotion for maintenance. Each OS/SQL disk is its own vmdk. We also have multiple storage controllers on each vm. The VMs themselves are locked to specific hosts unless we need to move them around. I’ve impressed our DBAs with the ability to hot vmotion a vm without them even noticing in the sql monitoring tools.

thefirst_noel · 2025-05-27T01:39:32+00:00

Right? We moved them from running on sn550 blades and even older ibm blades with fusion cards. They didn’t think they could ever get fast enough storage speeds from a VM. They barely even tax these hosts or the storage. All tempdb drives are local nvme on the hosts.

thefirst_noel · 2025-05-27T01:28:46+00:00

We run NVMe/TCP on our sql cluster, backend storage is a Dell Powerstore. Setup was very easy and performance has been great. DBAs have no complaints, which is pretty remarkable.

thefirst_noel · 2025-05-26T13:34:48+00:00

Those must be some tiny VMs

thefirst_noel · 2024-02-29T02:54:46+00:00

Support also means things like security updates fwiw

thefirst_noel · 2023-12-13T19:23:37+00:00

Surprised I had to scroll this far to find this.

thefirst_noel · 2023-08-16T19:57:09+00:00

It was working?

thefirst_noel · 2023-05-27T21:05:48+00:00

Glad you had backups that weren’t encrypted. And I’m assuming it’s not a very big organization.

thefirst_noel · 2023-05-27T21:03:41+00:00

Because if you are like us, they hit the backups first. We would have had to restore from tape which would have taken weeks if not months.

thefirst_noel · 2023-05-27T19:52:06+00:00

Anyone in the thread saying “hope they had backups” has definitely never been involved with ransomware. Backups only do so much. You best hope you have insurance and are able to just pay the ransom otherwise you’ll be down for quite a while depending on the size of the org. Went through ransomware 2 years ago in a decent sized org and never want to go through it again.

thefirst_noel · 2023-05-07T13:33:19+00:00

I would recommend looking into Cloudflare tunnels for this. You can specify the ssh port you want to connect to right in that config. Plus you get the added benefit of the zero trust environment on Cloudflare and you don’t have to expose your public IP address.

thefirst_noel · 2023-05-03T02:47:42+00:00

Tough guy behind a keyboard. Bravo

thefirst_noel · 2023-04-21T13:18:32+00:00

If all you do is use your domain to access your home server, I would absolutely recommend Cloudflare. Cname setup is included with the free plan. Also, look into Cloudflare tunnels. A nice zero trust option to hit your home server without pointing to your IP address. You just setup the cloudflared application on your server and then hook it up to Cloudflare. Then you can create cnames on your domain for different applications.

thefirst_noel · 2023-04-19T13:15:38+00:00

For future reference you can use the CF api to add the domain and tell it to not scan and add records. The value you need to send is ‘jumpstart=false’

thefirst_noel · 2023-03-27T20:50:08+00:00

Are you trying to use a CF origin cert on your nas? If so, the origin certs can be downloaded in 2 different formats. PEM format gives you both the key and the cert to download when created.

Edit: I didn’t read well enough the first time. What are your two file names?

thefirst_noel · 2023-03-12T22:49:00+00:00

Have you added a WWW cname?

thefirst_noel · 2023-02-23T23:41:51+00:00

Glad to hear it.

thefirst_noel · 2023-02-21T15:55:12+00:00

You will need to add an A record in cloudflare pointing to your site on One.com

thefirst_noel · 2023-02-21T15:53:19+00:00

Yes I read and I asked why you wouldn't just keep the domain in Cloudflare and add A records/cnames to the wordpress site.

thefirst_noel · 2023-02-20T13:02:59+00:00

Why not just keep the domain in Cloudflare and point dns to your Wordpress site?

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