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Cloudflare ddos mitigation is overrated. First they force you to upgrade your plan, if that does not help, anotyer upgrade, if that fails, chances are you will

• sammy2255 4y ago
  >First they force you to upgrade your plan I don’t think that’s true, would you care to share more about that experience?
  • Maxious 4y ago
    Cloudflare recently admitted that while their policy wasn't officially to force upgrades, some employees had taken it upon themselves to do so > This throttle should not have happened. In addition, there is and was no need for the customer to upgrade to some other plan level. https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-cloudflare-erroneously-throttled-a-customers-web-traffic/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-cloudflare-erroneously-throt... This came about from this HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34639212 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34639212
• vlakreeh 4y ago
  This is not the case, websites behind will get good ddos mitigation to begin with some options for improving that for some cost. But it's worth noting that in 2022 they blocked a 26M req/s attack on a website using the free plan, imo that's very generous for someone not paying for ddos protection. https://blog.cloudflare.com/26m-rps-ddos/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/26m-rps-ddos/