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Cloudflare says its network saw DNS-based DDoS attacks increase by 80% YoY in Q1 2024, with attacks on Sweden surging by 466% after its acceptance into NATO (The Cloudflare Blog)
https://blog.cloudflare.com/ddos-threat-report-for-2024-q1

DDoS threat report for 2024 Q1
2024 started with a bang. Cloudflare’s autonomous systems mitigated over 4.5 million DDoS attacks in the first quarter of the year — a 50% increase compared to the previous year. Read the full coverage:

If your business doesn’t use Cloudflare’s IPFS solution, block it. I’ve never seen this used in-the-wild for anything other than maliciousness.
Block cloudflare-ipfs.com using a web security gateway/NGFW or DNS, or both.
From: @…
https://infosec.exchange/@spamhaus/112021015959553428

Die DNS-Server von unserem ISP sind langsamer als Google und CloudFlare :/.
Obwohl der ISP bei der Latenz theoretisch einen großen Vorteil hat.

A bit of computer nerdery that's too small to be bothered blogging, but I still want to preserve for posterity:
*How to set-up ddclient to update CloudFlare DNS entries*:
1) There's a showstopper bug in the Perl5 IO Socket SSL library <= v1.081 (currently in Fedora 38). Fixed in v1.082 and Fedora 39 contains v1.083
2) If you want to determine your current public IP from a web source (rather than your router for e.g.), you probably want "use=web, web=ifconfig…

Die DNS-Server von unserem ISP sind langsamer als Google und CloudFlare :/.
Obwohl der ISP bei der Latenz theoretisch einen großen Vorteil hat.

Does anyone have any recommendations for S3 providers?
Currently, we are using DigitalOcean and have had reliability issue with them for a while now.
So far we checked out Contabo, but they have a 10 MiB/s bandwidth limit. We also checked out Cloudflare, but they force you to use their DNS service.
For DigitalOcean we are paying ~10/month for <500 GiB (with unknown but probably low traffic).