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The fact that all traffic is decrypted at their servers makes possible caching optimizations (what most users care about) and inject content,headers. This is the best example of th…

> That page argues against your point, even the basic plan does quite a bit to fend of DDOS. In particular, the most common and effective type of DDOS, which is volumetric and base…

Could you elaborate? Which plan are you on? What was the size of the DDoS attack?

Tangential, but how do you find OVH? Their hardware, bandwidth, uptime, customer service? I ask because of the conflicting reviews of OVH that a quick google search reveals.

https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/ Look at the "Advanced security" section. I also used Siege to flood a site behind Cloudflare's free plan and brought it down.

The paid plan, yes. But the commonly used free plan does not do much to prevent DDoS or DoS attacks.

For owners of small websites running on DigitalOcean, GCP or AWS, how do you handle DDoS and DoS attacks? For context, while exploring the load testing tool Siege running on a VPS,…

> I wish having an advanced degree was a criteria here. A few years ago, I noticed that Britain would give a blanket visa to anyone with an MBA from a list of top international sch…

> I wouldn't worry too much about what's being said or not said on HN. There are great ideas and topics to be covered here for sure, but they're sprinkled on top of a giant cake ma…