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Favorable Review
Product: Cloudflare DDoS Protection
Cloudflare DDoS Protection Detects Threats Yet Lacks Detailed Public Mitigation Insights
Critical Review
Product: Cloudflare DDoS Protection
How Effective is Cloudflare's HTTP DDoS Protection: An Insightful Dig
Likes and dislikes about
likes
Automatic mitigation capabilities that filter large volumes of malicious traffic without impacting legitimate users. It works transparently and doesn't require a lot of intervention or configuration
February 3, 2026
dislikes
The ineffectiveness of Cloudflare's HTTP DDoS protection. As I mentioned before, the DDoS protection always kicks in too late, often after the origin server has already been dead. And they can only block a bit more than 50% of total attack.
October 13, 2024
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