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DDoS protection is something that small websites should not need. Current circumstances are a sad and unfortunate state of the internet.

• makomk 7y ago
  Not only that, Cloudflare has helped to ensure that DDoS protection is something that every website needs. Under normal circumstances, all the shady DDoS-as-a-service providers would DDoS each other off the internet and leave everyone else in relative peace. However, Cloudflare kindly provided them all with free, world-class, no-questions-asked DDoS protection to ensure that they could continue operating their business of destroying sites that didn't use Cloudflare.
  • _bxg1 7y ago
    This doesn't make any sense at all. What are you basing it on?
    • makomk 7y ago
      See for instance https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/01/spreading-the-disease-and-selling-the-cure/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/01/spreading-the-disease-an... or more recently https://www.secureworldexpo.com/industry-news/does-cloudflare-protect-ddos-sites https://www.secureworldexpo.com/industry-news/does-cloudflar... - this has been going on for years and is officially permitted by Cloudflare policy. (The reason why these booter services need such good DDoS protection is that knocking the competition offline makes for good business - it's a great demonstration of effectiveness and cuts off their business at the same time. In the pre-Cloudflare era those services were locked in an almost continual war against each other.)