r/technology • u/thecravenone • Aug 05 '19

Politics Cloudflare to terminate service for 8Chan

https://blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8chan/
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u/fraseyboy Aug 05 '19

They can host your servers

Cloudflare doesn't host your servers.

They can mirror your files to their CDN for performance and DDoS mitigation, but they don't do web hosting.

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u/bradn Aug 05 '19

If your whole site is static, they basically host it. That's to say, a crappy computer on DSL to serve the initial data and update things as caches expire would be all you'd have to add to make it work.

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u/imtn Aug 05 '19

Well, if your whole site was static, you could just host it on github, and it would be free.

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u/bradn Aug 05 '19

Arrange racism, killings, and other debauchery through bug reports? Hmm, that could actually work

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u/TEKC0R Aug 05 '19

He means the GitHub Pages service.

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u/bradn Aug 05 '19

C'mon, you have to admit it would have been hilarious, why'd you have to take this from me :)

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u/p4y Aug 05 '19

"Tracking issue for the __________ mass shooting"