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I am considering hosting something and am concerned about DDOS attacks.

I am morally opposed to cloudflare because I think they are an unethical and shitty company.

What privacy focused solutions are there to reduce the likelihood of a successful DDOS attack?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I wouldn't worry about DDOS attacks at all.

People simply don't care about whatever small website you plan on hosting. Unless it's something extremely controversial and you gain a lot of exposure suddenly.

It's worth worrying about if you ever get big but until then just forget it.

I.E. do something about it when/if it happens and not before. A ddos is fairly harmless unless you need to stay up for some reason (and you don't need to stay up).