How LulzSec kept itself safe during the summer of 'lulz'
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How LulzSec kept itself safe during the summer of 'lulz'
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#2How LulzSec kept -- their website -- safe during the summer of 'lulz'
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#3How LulzSec kept -- their website -- safe during the summer of 'lulz'
Yes, they didn't do a particularly good job of keeping themselves safe, did they?
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#4Nice press hit.
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#5does anyone have experience with cloudflare? good service?
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#6My bullshit detector went off somewhere around here: "CloudFlare provides performance and security for any website online.We handle more traffic through our network now than Amazon, Wikipedia, Twitter, Zynga and Aol combined."
Considering Wiki, Twitter and Amazon are all top 10 global sites, I'm having a hard time imagining someone doing more traffic than all of them put together, even disregarding the rounding errors of Zynga/AOL. Anyone have more concrete statistics to confirm/deny this?
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#7Nice ad Cloudfare... Wait, was it a legit article ?
NewScientist took a hit in my heart in terms of credibility with this article.
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#8My bullshit detector went off somewhere around here: "CloudFlare provides performance and security for any website online.We handle more traffic through our network now than Amazon, Wikipedia, Twitter, Zynga and Aol combined." Considering Wiki, Twitter and Amazon are all top 10 global sites, I'm having a hard time imagining someone doing more traffic than all of them put together, even disregarding the rounding error…
My understanding is that CloudFlare runs a CDN delivering content for thousands and thousands of sites. This means it basically has to handle all the traffic for all of its customers. I'm sure that adds up really quickly.
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#9My bullshit detector went off somewhere around here: "CloudFlare provides performance and security for any website online.We handle more traffic through our network now than Amazon, Wikipedia, Twitter, Zynga and Aol combined." Considering Wiki, Twitter and Amazon are all top 10 global sites, I'm having a hard time imagining someone doing more traffic than all of them put together, even disregarding the rounding error…
While I don't have any statistics, I do not doubt their claim. CloudFlare is a CDN, and as such will handle an enormous amount of traffic. As an example of this, Akamai, a large CDN, handles approximately 20% of the total traffic on the internet. In fact, many sites, such as Wikipedia, Twitter, even Amazon and Google, actually host static content through Akamai. All this content adds up to significant amounts of traffic.
EDIT: Link -- http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/dataviz3.html
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#10does anyone have experience with cloudflare? good service?
I've used it a few times and it works well, it certainly didn't hurt. It's interesting to look at the stats they give and see how much bad traffic is being blocked. They definitely curbed the amount of comment spam on a test Wordpress blog I was using for awhile.
I wish I had more exact, measurable, information to provide but I used it only out of curiosity.