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I am considering hosting something and am concerned about DDOS attacks.

I am morally opposed to cloudflare because I think they are an unethical and shitty company.

What privacy focused solutions are there to reduce the likelihood of a successful DDOS attack?

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

As little as possible. This will probably be a low traffic site. I just want something cheap and not cloudflare.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

I don't think there is anything else free. Best you can do is host with someone like ovh that has enough resources to provide basic protection.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

You're not really at risk of DDOS in that case, I wouldn't worry about it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Why would someone want to ddos ur small site, real ddos is extremely expensive attack,

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Make your website all static files (if you can) and host on a CDN like Bunny.net. It's $1/month and your website might actually be able to get through some large traffic spikes. It won't work against a targeted sustained DDoS but like the other comments said that's not likely to happen.