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Out of curiosity, would Cloudflare be able to sustain the amount of inbound requests they're handling?
by butwhy 12y ago
Out of curiosity, would Cloudflare be able to sustain the amount of inbound requests they're handling?
- lucb1e 12y agoHaven't seen many stats, but I'm pretty sure they could. If I remember correctly they deflected one of the largest we've ever seen which even made trouble for the Internet's infrastructure.
- _asummers 12y agoThis [1] is what you're referring to, I believe. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w04ZAXftQ_Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w04ZAXftQ_Y
- zaroth 12y agoL7 attacks come down to how much you can cache. If GitHhub was a purely static site, they wouldn't have trouble serving the requests themselves in any case. Github can solve this problem with CloudFlare to the same extent that Github's product can be replaced with a hundred nginx servers with 10Gbit uplinks, large RAM caches, and effectively zero CPU time spent on each request.
- majke 12y agoIs there any data on the size of the traffic? Anyway, even assuming the traffic is infinite, (to my understanding) most of the flooding IP's are from china. If that's the case it would most likely only affect the datacenter handling Chinese traffic. So even if it's really bad, only a (relatively small)[1] part of the world would notice. [1] relatively small in terms of the size of internet, not number of people