[lopsa-tech] Anyone use Cloudflare?

2016-04-15 Thread john boris
Here at $WORK one of our sites have been getting hit with a DDOS attack. Our WAN team is looking into CloudFlare as a means of protection against future attacks? If you have worked with them or have a contact I can speak to I'd appreciate it. -- John J. Boris, Sr.

Re: [lopsa-tech] Anyone use Cloudflare?

2016-04-15 Thread Matthew Butch
We use it at $WORK and I'm pretty happy with it. There isn't a whole lot of config to set it up which is nice. The downside is there isn't a whole lot of config overall. Certainly it's great for DOS attacks but also reduction of bandwidth usage. Any particular questions? You can contact me of

Re: [lopsa-tech] Anyone use Cloudflare?

2016-04-15 Thread Chris Mosetick
I use Cloudflare for several personal projects and it works really well for me. You can do some really cool stuff with their API as well. I would use it for work projects without hesitation. (obviously depending on what your needs are) Some Pros: - One-Click IPv6 enable - Cool API - Associate mult

Re: [lopsa-tech] Anyone use Cloudflare?

2016-04-15 Thread Jack Coats
I use it at home. It cuts down the amount of outside attacks I see on my router. I have two outside feeds, and they are willing to allow two IP addresses to be protected for one home connection. You just have to communicate directly and let them know your situation for them to authorize it. A l

Re: [lopsa-tech] Anyone use Cloudflare?

2016-04-15 Thread Steve Hanson
On 04/15/2016 02:05 PM, john boris wrote: Here at $WORK one of our sites have been getting hit with a DDOS attack. Our WAN team is looking into CloudFlare as a means of protection against future attacks? If you have worked with them or have a contact I can speak to I'd appreciate it. Actually

Re: [lopsa-tech] Anyone use Cloudflare?

2016-04-15 Thread Smith, David
If you choose to use CloudFlare to front-end your Web site, be sure that you also change the back-end server’s IP address and/or firewall it so that only CloudFlare IPs can access it. Otherwise, if the attacker already knows your IP, they can just keep DDOS’ing it and you won’t really get much b