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This used to be the normal way to make sure your logs weren’t 99.99% abuse attempts on low- to moderate-traffic sites, back in the day. Deny a few country-speci
by hotnfresh 3y ago
This used to be the normal way to make sure your logs weren’t 99.99% abuse attempts on low- to moderate-traffic sites, back in the day. Deny a few country-specific IP blocks and almost all of it went away. Maybe you lose one in ten thousand legit requests. Oh well.
Cloudflare’s the modern version of it, complete with factoring in origin location to a request’s likelihood to be abuse.
- vessio 3y agoI still wish CDNs in all their modern tech had less fluff. It is almost like they try to make even the pricing complex. I agree to your point though.
- Multiplayer 3y agoWhich countries?
- hotnfresh 3y agoChina was #1 with a bullet. Probably Russia next. Some other non-“western”-aligned Asian states if just blocking as much of China as you could manage didn’t do the trick. Basically exactly the countries you’d expect. Africa, South America, and the rest of the (in a broad sense) “global south” weren’t online enough to be a major source of trouble, back then, so those weren’t often blocked AFAIK.