Cloudflare promises to protect your site from DDoS attacks for free
Sep26
Content delivery network service Cloudflare turns seven this week, and is celebrating by offering its customers free protection from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. That means that if someone tries to take your site down by blasting it with traffic – like how GitHub has been attacked in recent years – Cloudflare’s CDN will continue to keep it online, and won’t boot you off the network as it previously would in order to protect other customers, regardless of the size of the attack. The company said in a blog post that it’s now grown large enough that it can handle most…
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