Comment on How I accidentally slowed down my nextcloud instance for months
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 7 months agoUp to a certain volume they serve a page that runs some JavaScript heuristics to figure out if the client making the request is legit or not.
Past a certain volume your service is cut off completely.
The cutoff point depends on the load on their free tier network, which is shared by all freeloaders. Could be someone else under attack and you’d still get cut off.
CloudFlare is a CDN first of all, and it makes its money from paying customers. The free tier and the registrar and the DNS and the reverse proxy and basic DoS heuristics etc. are just there to generate word of mouth and free advertising. Nobody was talking about CF a few years ago when they didn’t offer these free services, now every selfhoster and their dog will recommend them.
lud@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Again, do you have a source for that?
All the information I can find points to the ddos protection being essentially the same regardless of price plan. The paid plans just get some more features. Like extra firewall stuff.
chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 7 months ago
On the product offering page for Free DDoS Web Protection, the features table shows that “Unmetered DDoS Protection” is available for everyone regardless of tier from Free all the way up to Enterprise. This change was rolled out on 2017-09-25, prior to this, there was a certain amount of throughput depending on price point (though, still very generous for the free tier from what I remembered).
Sometimes, people make up their mind about something and never update their knowledge, and it would appear this is one of those case here.