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... I don't think people are using cloudflare to protect something willy nilly. My general experience is, if you host a popular site, it will be DDOS'd. If yo
by bearjaws 4y ago
... I don't think people are using cloudflare to protect something willy nilly.
My general experience is, if you host a popular site, it will be DDOS'd.
If you host a site in a 'competitive' space, you will get DDOS'd.
I've seen it all personally, forums, image upload sites, NFT galleries, and SAAS health tech even, people will spend a couple hundred dollars to make you miserable.
If you don't have protection, they can literally see how you are falling and it only encourages further spend.
- evilspammer 4y agoWorth mentioning that Cloudflare also hosts those DDOS services and prevents them from being shut down.
- dymk 4y agoLike what?
- stjohnswarts 4y agodo you have a sauce on that? it's a really big charge.
- evilspammer 4y agoI spoke too strongly to say they keep them online intentionally. The services do per se violate their AUP but because CF protects their identity, CF becomes the arbiter of taking them offline, and doesn't always agree to do so.
- doublerabbit 4y ago> ... I don't think people are using cloudflare to protect something willy nilly. I do, it's a buzzword. Cloudflare, you don't have that? Your not cool unless you do. With young apprentices learning the ropes of SRE/SysAdmin, DDoS protection has been painted as a #101 of the web when realistically you don't need it.
- rhtgrg 4y agoAlso, Cloudflare is one of the easier free gateways to set up for your domain. Lots of people are using that (and Cloudflare apps) and they probably enable these protections without giving it a second thought.
- orthecreedence 4y agoIs putting up a HAProxy instance with some DDoS mitigation rules really that hard?