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What is the free speech alternative to Cloudflare for DDOS protection? Activist hackers are everywhere today and have no qualms attacking Parler or others they
by throwawaysea 6y ago
What is the free speech alternative to Cloudflare for DDOS protection? Activist hackers are everywhere today and have no qualms attacking Parler or others they disagree with. Culturally, many in the younger generation of hackers are anti free speech, or at least against it for their political adversaries. Twitter still hasn’t banned the one archiving locations of Parler users from EXIF data in photos. And with utilities like AWS deplatforming paying customers now, I imagine Cloudflare can’t be relied on either.
- rglover 6y agoLoad balancer or application level rate-limiting. Cloudflare already deplatformed people: https://tech.co/news/cloudflare-removes-service-8chan-2019-08 https://tech.co/news/cloudflare-removes-service-8chan-2019-0....
- throwawaysea 6y agoI’m not an expert but my understanding is that defending against DDOS requires immense infrastructure. Can a single site in its own achieve that with a load balancer or the rate limiting you mention?
- rglover 6y agoDepends on the scope and scale of the attack. If you put a proxy server in front of the actual application server (or a series of proxy servers that were lightweight/cheap to run), technically speaking you could control it. Not an expert either but have relied on mechanisms like that in the past to help with traffic control.