Jerry on Mastodon on Nostr: Over the past 24-hours, the #Cloudflare firewall blocked over 34K requests on ...

Over the past 24-hours, the #Cloudflare firewall blocked over 34K requests on hear-me.social, about 7% of the traffic. This is a typical day. Some days, though, can be a lot more. I'm dodging some bullets.

I don't have the knowledge or time to build a firewall that recognizes bot behaviors, dynamically learns new abuse behaviors, does managed challenges when needed, and recognizes and blocks the hundreds of attack patterns hackers use. I would need a bigger server. I just couldn't do this myself.

And Cloudflare provides this service for free to hobbyists and small businesses.