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Re:How Discord Handles Two and Half Million Concurrent Voice... by tylerplz on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @01:40AM (#17957423)
> Since it’s the only service directly accessible from the public Internet, we will focus on Discord Voice server failovers.

Why is the Gateway not directly accessible from the public Internet?

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Re:How Discord Handles Two and Half Million Concurrent Voice... by jhgg on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @01:47AM (#17957444)
It's a clustered service that is behind an SSL Load Balancer[1] that is behind Cloudflare. So not really a viable DDoS target.

[1]: https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/ssl/

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