CDN for a small forum — overkill?

I put every site behind the same free CDN tier and forgot about DDoS worries.

Learned the hard way that an untested backup is a Schrödinger backup.

Staging is just a subdomain plus a database copy — nothing fancy, works fine.

Curious what everyone else here thinks about it.

I put every site behind the same free CDN tier and forgot about DDoS worries.

certbot with the nginx plugin has been flawless for me.

Bumping this because I ran into the same thing today.

I put every site behind the same free CDN tier and forgot about DDoS worries.

Test restores monthly — it has saved me twice now.

Nice thread, following for the replies.

Test restores monthly — it has saved me twice now.

Same registrar here, never had a problem in six years.

Same registrar here, never had a problem in six years.

certbot with the nginx plugin has been flawless for me.

I disagree slightly, but I can see where you are coming from.