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Haven't sites been DDoS'd that were using Cloudflare? Its good, but not a magic bullet.
by tibbon 12y ago
Haven't sites been DDoS'd that were using Cloudflare? Its good, but not a magic bullet.
- david_shaw 12y agoYeah, but my understanding is that it helps a lot. CloudFlare masks the actual IP address of the web site, and distributes the load through the CloudFlare platform. It's still possible to overload that capacity, but it's a lot more than what any standalone web server can take. Furthermore, the web server itself will stay online, as it isn't actually getting hit by the flood of requests.