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Getting ddosed by a $5 botnet, which gets cheaper every day, tends to change people's minds about Cloudflare. Your users don't really care about decentralized
by hombre_fatal 5y ago
Getting ddosed by a $5 botnet, which gets cheaper every day, tends to change people's minds about Cloudflare.
Your users don't really care about decentralized utopia when your service doesn't work.
- moontear 5y agoHelp me understand what you mean: my service ok particular wouldn’t be ddosed because nobody cares. I guess bots are hitting CF IPs at large and therefore services might be disrupted?
- hombre_fatal 5y agoWell, every service that gets ddosed was once a service that nobody cared about. But if your service is in a category that attracts ddos (like a forum or game) and you ever get enough traction for someone to care (doesn’t take much), it might surprise you how cheap it is to take you down and how limited your options are against a simple volumetric attack.
- api 5y agoThe only decentralization that's going to work is actual decentralization where there's not really anything to DDOS, or rather the entire system is itself a botnet.