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Cloudflare uses it as advertising. "Look at this attack we mitigated for our client!", which then gets picked up by HN and similar sites because Cloudflare doe
by kyrra 14y ago
Cloudflare uses it as advertising. "Look at this attack we mitigated for our client!", which then gets picked up by HN and similar sites because Cloudflare does write fairly good blog posts about it. As others have said, Cloudflare does a fairly good job explaining parts of the internet that most of us don't get to see, so it gets attention.
- youngtaff 14y agoIt gets picked up by HN as CloudFlare post it to HN themselves. That said they're interesting articles if you ignore the hype.
- drakaal 14y agoMore like they invent drama to cover their bad days. Akamai tells its clients when they are under DDoS, Akamai didn't really notice anything going on. CF just had a bad day and decided to make a story out of it. One other time when CF claimed a DDoS it was because the Google Bot Decided to up it's crawl rate, and took down many CF sites. CF told clients it was DDoS and then later admitted it was an issue with Google.