Re:Record DDoS pummels site with once-unimaginable 7.3Tbps o...
by mlyle on Tuesday June 24, 2025 @12:06PM
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> CF shouldn't be trusted in their assessment as it's inflated.
I think since we know CloudFlare has the biggest scale, we know that CloudFlare has the biggest capacity, with a higher baseline request rate and traffic exchanged than anyone else: definitely globally, and almost everywhere locally.
> And I've already addressed your last point, so alternatively: if the biggest attacks are 1 bps of traffic, it doesn't matter that you have a ton of infrastructure because anyone can handle a byte.
Which is why Cloudflare has an incentive to make DDoS attacks sound bigger.
I think since we know CloudFlare has the biggest scale, we know that CloudFlare has the biggest capacity, with a higher baseline request rate and traffic exchanged than anyone else: definitely globally, and almost everywhere locally.
> And I've already addressed your last point, so alternatively: if the biggest attacks are 1 bps of traffic, it doesn't matter that you have a ton of infrastructure because anyone can handle a byte.
Which is why Cloudflare has an incentive to make DDoS attacks sound bigger.