Do you have any more details about what sort of requests are being blocked?
I’ve been planning to use Cloudflare for an upcoming project, under the impression that ‘Essentially Off’ really did mean essentially off, and would only block obvious DDoS traffic. I could understand a legitimate user being blocked if they shared an IP with a host actually engaged in a DDoS attack, but short of that, I don’t want anyone being blocked. It sounds like I should look at other CDN options…
It's a tiny amount compared to the traffic that does get through, but enough that affected users make it to our support channels. I think a good amount are due to VPNs used by users, the rest seemed like standard residential IPs that I didn't see a reason for being blocked.
I’ve been planning to use Cloudflare for an upcoming project, under the impression that ‘Essentially Off’ really did mean essentially off, and would only block obvious DDoS traffic. I could understand a legitimate user being blocked if they shared an IP with a host actually engaged in a DDoS attack, but short of that, I don’t want anyone being blocked. It sounds like I should look at other CDN options…