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Is your claim that Basement Bob’s raspberry pi could withstand the kind of attacks that companies like Cloudflare handle? Eg - https://blog.cloudflare.com/26m-

by yunohn 4y ago

Is your claim that Basement Bob’s raspberry pi could withstand the kind of attacks that companies like Cloudflare handle? Eg - https://blog.cloudflare.com/26m-rps-ddos/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/26m-rps-ddos/

csande17 4y ago
I think the parent comment's claim is that serving a CAPTCHA page to potential attackers may actually be more resource intensive than serving a lightweight page that has the actual content on it.
- yunohn 4y ago
  So, you posit, that Cloudflare has never thought of this before or weighed the pros/cons before building an entire business out of it? Sure.
  - csande17 4y ago
    Typically, the pages that Cloudflare protects are not especially lightweight or efficient.
nonrandomstring 4y ago
No. It's that Basement Bob's Raspberry Pi doesn't need to.
- yunohn 4y ago
  I don’t think your line of reasoning was very coherent, and displayed a lack of understanding of reality.