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https://www.netlify.com/security/ https://www.netlify.com/security/ sez “Active DDoS mitigation — Netlify monitors for traffic pattern anomalies and spikes, and
by Lammy 3y ago
https://www.netlify.com/security/ https://www.netlify.com/security/ sez “Active DDoS mitigation — Netlify monitors for traffic pattern anomalies and spikes, and effectively controls for them as needed” and now I'm curious about what that actually means.
- PaoloBarbolini 3y agoIt means they protect themselves from layer 3 and 4 DDoS. For layer 7 you're mostly on your own. That's what most companies mean when they talk about DDoS anyway.
- Lammy 3y agoI found https://www.netlify.com/blog/2017/03/28/why-you-dont-need-cloudflare-with-netlify/ https://www.netlify.com/blog/2017/03/28/why-you-dont-need-cl... and it sounds like you're right. “The cool thing is that we also provide a load balancer, and if our system has detected that our main load balancer is currently being hit by a large DDoS attack and is slow or unresponsive, we’ll simply route around that on the DNS level. Since we cache content at our edge nodes around the world, end users also experience extremely fast page load times because of this.”
- aperture147 3y agoWell at least Cloudflare will not charge me for this situation.
- xyzzy123 3y agoRight and as a CDN they HAVE to handle layer 3 & 4 DDoS themselves so it's not like they're doing you any favours. The traffic is typically routed to the customer based on SNI.
- serial_dev 3y agoIt means that they will charge you 20k (a year's rent for me, no biggie) instead of 100k for your free website, or 5k if you got lucky.
- DANmode 3y agoIf you value uptime, even through being massively attacked, they can offer you that.
- _cenw 3y agoThat is not unique to this price point and most of their competitors do not charge for unusual traffic spikes.
- Charles_Stover 3y agoIt's a static website. Plenty can offer uptime through being massively attacked, for free.
- dns_snek 3y agoOT: It seems like your comments are being automatically flagged/killed by HN, you might want to reach out to HN staff. You're the second person in this situation I've come across in the past hour, odd.
- syrgian 3y agoI had the intuition that Netlify are extremely incompetent compared to Cloudflare, and this thread adds another data point. So no, if you value uptime you are not going to rely on them.
- digging 3y agoWho on earth does this describe? 1. Comfortable paying >$100,000 to prevent their site going down for a single day, and 2. Doesn't pay a dime for their hosting service on a day-to-day basis
- weare138 3y agoThey reroute the network traffic to ensure none of it gets dropped so they can accurately overcharge you for the the correct amount.