Hey guys,
What would be the use case for the Cloudflare workers bouncer vs Cloudflare bouncer?
I’m currently on the free plan, using Traefik with CS and the CF bouncer, but seeing as how you can get cloudflare workers starting from £5 a month vs the £20 for the pro plan, is the cloudflare worker bouncer designed to be a replacement/alternative?
I guess you also asked this on reddit?
copy and paste my answer here on top of the others:
They work differently, one uses workers which act as a reverse proxy between cloudflare and your server (similar to how the proxy works) but you have way more control on how those workers well “work”.
The original implementation uses “lists” and enable a rule within the WAF section, however, we (crowdsec) have been told by cloudflare that lists was never intended to be use in such a dynamic way and hence they have implemented rate limits now on free accounts but unfortunately these rate limits are not documented or informed to the client so we have no way to implement a backoff between rate limits.
Plus also as mrpink said, this also removes the limits as we use the keyvalue store of cloudflare we can store as much as you want.
Thank you very much!
Yes…I may have been a bit impatient 