On Thursday, March 28, 2013 9:52:28 AM UTC-5, Jeff Schnitzer wrote: > > Note that CF (when active) is itself a reverse proxy, but their IP > addresses are whitelisted by Google so it won't tickle Google's > auto-blocking system. Since Google's system is completely opaque (you > get no metrics), CF's is superior. >
Just to add to Jeff's excellent response, Google's anti-DDOS and other protection systems can be so aggressive they block some reverse proxies and (once!) blocked cloudflare, which caused a big stink on this mailing list. See https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/google-appengine/ykW9HVjO1sk and https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/google-appengine/YgF_UMWBG10 for some extra light reading. Overall, I wouldn't worry too much about a DDOS. That article you linked to is about Spamhaus; they have a lot of enemies, and they get hit with all kinds of virtual garbage on a regular basis. Feel free to sign up with Cloudflare if you want: they have excellent analytics and other services, so even if you don't expect a DDOS, it's still a great idea. But a normal website is just not going to be hit with a 50 gig/sec, not unless you've made some seriously bad enemies. TLDR: don't lose any sleep over it. ----------------- -Vinny P Technology & Media Advisor Chicago, IL -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
