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The current situation is preferable to the before times, where any website could be nuked from orbit by anyone with a mild grievance. Cloudflare has succeeded i
by SheinhardtWigCo 3y ago
The current situation is preferable to the before times, where any website could be nuked from orbit by anyone with a mild grievance. Cloudflare has succeeded in effectively shutting down that attack vector, and that’s worth the risk of occasional brief but broad outages, at least to me.
- dijit 3y agoThere were mitigations for this but it was usually on “IT”s budget and IT was considered a cost center. Really the best innovation in the last 10 years has been the penchant for putting things on development budgets instead which loosened the purse strings considerably. I wish I had sufficient data to back this up but for context; I was part of a small infrastructure team running a little over 1% of all web traffic at one point in a pair of colos (with DDoS protection) for less than £5MM on infra costs. Now I can easily be in the 6 digits with just a CRUD app