Mick wrote: ↑Fri Nov 24, 2017 1:08 pm
it causes more problems than it cures.
The one important thing it cures is your site no longer at risk for DDOS attack if you have configured everything correctly. It's certainly not any one click wonder protection and there is lot of considerations. You need to have email outgoing from different IP, disallow remote avatar uploads, disallow the feature that will get image sizes etc. The other step to take is to firewall off all connections over port 80 and 443 except for cloudflare.
I will tell you one thing, looking at server logs is "the bomb" when you see nothing but your IP.
There is ton of features and it does add more complexity but it's swell worth it IMO.
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