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chromehearts 10 hours ago

Cloudflare DDOS protection is super essential (especially for smaller businesses)

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Tanath 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

DDoS prevention may be essential, but not CloudFlare.

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Mordisquitos 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Who is motivated to launch DDoS against smaller businesses? What do they have to gain?

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the_bear 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

My small SaaS app has been DDoSed a handful of times, always accompanied by an email asking for a ransom in the form of bitcoin.

The first time we switched to Cloudflare which saved us. Even with Cloudflare, the DDoS attempts are still damaging (the site goes down, we use Cloudflare to block the endpoints they're targeting, they change endpoints, etc.) but manageable. Without Cloudflare or something like it, I think it's possible that we'd be out of business.

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xslvrxslwt 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Anyone that has $5.

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Mordisquitos 9 hours ago | parent [-]

I've also got €5, but I see greater return on investment in spending them on a lottery ticket than in DDoS'ing arbitrary small businesses.

	▲	xslvrxslwt 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I know, but people love the feel of "power", especially when it's cheap or even free