4 min
What Bot Traffic Really Costs Your Origin (and How to Estimate It)
Bots cost more than bandwidth: compute, database load, cache misses and skewed analytics. A simple model to estimate what bot traffic costs your origin.
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Edge security
Protecting your site at the CDN edge: Cloudflare's bot products compared, designing checks that fail safely, and what blocking bots saves your origin.
5 min
Cloudflare Bot Fight Mode vs Super Bot Fight Mode vs Bot Management
What each Cloudflare bot product does, which plan includes it, and where the gaps are, so you can choose the right protection for your plan and your traffic.
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Fail-Open vs Fail-Closed: Security Checks That Won't Break Your Site
When a security check errors, should the request go through or be blocked? A framework for choosing fail-open or fail-closed, with patterns that make either safe.
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