Ethproxy vs Cloudflare

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Posted by albatroz, 07-04-2011, 01:32 PM
Does anybody know if Cloudflare provides DDOS protection?
Posted by layer0, 07-04-2011, 03:07 PM
This topic was discussed before. http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1060119 Basically, you do get some level of protection from using them, but you shouldn't expect them to sustain very large attacks for you.
Posted by KnownSRV, 07-04-2011, 03:28 PM
DDoS attacks are very expensive. You can't expect CloudFlare to spend money(bandwidth) and time on blocking your attacks.
Posted by damoncloudflare, 07-04-2011, 07:31 PM
Limited protection (discussed in the thread). The one thing you could do if using CloudFlare, however, is to block countries in your threat control panel so all visitors from that region get challenged (you can also totally block IPs and IP ranges). If your site doesn't cater to an audience in a certain region at all this option might make sense to reduce botnet attacks.
Posted by ddosguru, 07-05-2011, 03:11 AM
The two are substantially different products. CloudFlare is a CDN, ethProxy is a DDoS protection proxy. If you need DDoS protection, you need to get the ethProxy.
Posted by Appdeveloper, 07-05-2011, 04:33 AM
Yes, but CloudFlare can still be used as DDoS protection because when an attacker goes to attack your website, he ends up attacking CloudFlare.
Posted by drspliff, 07-05-2011, 08:28 AM
CloudFlare has no obligation to continue hosting your site if you come under a DDoS attack, they can and will 'Disable CloudFlare' on any affected domains if it becomes too much for them to reasonably handle.
Posted by damoncloudflare, 07-05-2011, 07:29 PM
We will most certainly start going direct when an attack starts impacting other customers.