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Re:Cloudflare was down by AdamGibbins on Friday July 17, 2020 @05:48PM (#23876275)
It's hosted on AWS, you don't need DDoS protection, just a big wallet.
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Re:Cloudflare was down by dijit on Friday July 17, 2020 @05:52PM (#23876337)
Thats not even slightly true.

Their IP belongs to AS21581; which is registered with a company called 'M5 Computer hosting' out of west-coast USA.

m5hosting.com

The last hop is Santa Barbera.

Definitely does not fall in the AWS ranges.

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Re:Cloudflare was down by saagarjha on Friday July 17, 2020 @05:51PM (#23876331)
Hacker News is self-hosted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22767439. Let me see if I can find a better link where the specs are discussed.
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Re:Cloudflare was down by gruez on Friday July 17, 2020 @05:54PM (#23876361)
Only if you use their "infinitely scaling" services. eg. s3. If the attacker is hammering you with expensive queries and your database is on 1 ec2 server, you're still going to go down.
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Re:Cloudflare was down by ivalm on Friday July 17, 2020 @05:56PM (#23876387)
The nameserver is aws but IP4 points to “m5 computer security”
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