DaPorkchop_ comments on Welcome to 2025

[–] DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 134 points 1 year ago (49 children)

if you can provide me a better way to keep my homelab from getting DDoSed every five minutes then by all means, please share it

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[–] daniel@federation.network [S] 30 points 1 year ago (9 children)

@DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml @memes@lemmy.world Is that an actual issue or a hypothetical one? I've never had an attack in 10 years of publicly hosting stuff.

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[–] DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It's the reason I set up cloudflare in the first place, so yeah. I was getting SYN flood-ed to the point that my router would just crash almost immediately, and after rebooting it the attack would resume after a minute or two.

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[–] daniel@federation.network [S] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

@DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml @memes@lemmy.world Hm weird, I don't see why they would spend their resources attacking random people without any kind of demand. Even at work I've never seen one happening.
I still believe Cloudflare has most of its customers because of fearmongering tbh.

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[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's a bit like saying "having a password on your account is fearmongering, why would anyone try to access your data".

It's only fearmongering until you get attacked, and it's already too late when you do. Better to be proactive.

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[–] daniel@federation.network [S] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

@Alaknar@sopuli.xyz @memes@lemmy.world Being proactive doesn't mean you have to hide your personal service behind a billion dollar company. That is precisely the kind of overreaction triggered by fearmongering. If you don't know how to secure access points or harden configurations, no service will be able to do it for you as if by magic. Not to mention your responsibility towards your users, who may not want to be tracked by a third-party company without their knowledge every time they visit your site (or half of the internet by now).

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[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 1 point 1 year ago

If you don’t know how to secure access points or harden configurations, no service will be able to do it for you as if by magic

That's the point. Cloudflare does this as if by magic.

Not to mention your responsibility towards your users, who may not want to be tracked by a third-party company

Cloudflare doesn't track your users.

As a sidenote - am I reading you correctly? Your main issue with Cloudflare is "they're large"? Like, if they were "two dudes in a basement" and provided the same quality product as they do now, you'd be happy to use their service?