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Not sure is this is the best option today, but in a previous self hosting situation I relied on CloudFlare's DDOS protection. We survived several attacks thanks
by bsenftner 4y ago
Not sure is this is the best option today, but in a previous self hosting situation I relied on CloudFlare's DDOS protection. We survived several attacks thanks to them. One attack was a 3 days long, and CloudFlare worked fine the entire time, our regular customers were lightly impacted but could still work.
- capableweb 4y agoI guess it depends on where you draw the limit, but if you tunnel all your traffic via an external proxy to your "self-hosted" platform, how much can you really call that solution self-hosted? Did you try anything else before slapping cloudflare in front of your setup?
- bsenftner 4y agoAt the time, I was running a game service, so had a fair number of script kiddies attempting whatever. Expecting them, before using Cloudflare I got a hardware firewall. With a bit of research I located the same hardware firewall used by Federal Reserve Banks. At that time, an outright purchase of that thing was $24K, but it was well worth it. It had every bell and whistle one could ask: deep pack inspection, load balancing, and a quite a bit more. When I closed, that hardware firewall sold for the same price I paid, years earlier.