>>i don't care if 1/4 of the internet goes down, i care about my site.
>To the 1/4th of the Internet that couldn't reach your site, as far as they care, your site is down
i actually mean that my site is down 100%, that is what i care, i don't care other sites being down (unless they are a requirement for my site)
>>do the CF downtime was bigger or smaller than a downtime on my side?
>Bigger. One is inclusive of the other.
again, you didn't understood what i mean, i'm saying that a downtime in my site due to CF is probably shorter than a downtime on my infra if i tried to replicate cloudflare on my infra
>Which would be better if 1/4th of the Internet could use that bypass config to reach your site, but they can't, their traffic routes through CF first and can't get anywhere else.
ignoring the 1/4 traffic, as i pointed above, but related how to bypass cloudflare.
right now my www.example.com site is a CNAME to www.example.com.cdn.cloudflare.net and them i have in cloudflare that www.example.com points to my backend ip. To bypass cloudflare, i can point my original www.example.com to the backend directly, bypassing cloudflare. yes, i will expose my backend IPs, but we can either change it or firewall block any traffic that isn't cloudflare after restoring the original config