Could Flare vs Reverse Proxy as DDoS protection

[Webmin]

Hello, I was wondering what would be "better" to protect my site against DDoS attacks.

CloudFlare.com

or

http://www.xsltel.com/reverse-proxy.php

Thanks

 

[onel0ve]

http://www.xsltel.com/reverse-proxy.php

 

[XSLTel]

as I told you in Livechat if your site attracting ddos we can't host you. CloudFlare is free and better imho

 

[masterb56]

Do you have to create another thread for this?

http://www.wjunction.com/18-server-management-help/136276-best-reverse-proxy.html

 

[CloudShadow]

1. Cloudflare is neither a reverse proxy nor is it meant to be used for DDoS protection.
2.If you really want to protect yourself form DDoS get a hardware level firewall or use a service that provides real DDoS protection ( this too will cost you something in the upper hundreds or thousands range).
3. Reverse proxy is only used to hide your real IP. If a RP service says that they'll provide DDos protection for 9-10$ then that service is a fluke.

 

[damoncloudflare]

Hi,

"1. Cloudflare is neither a reverse proxy nor is it meant to be used for DDoS protection.
2.If you really want to protect yourself form DDoS get a hardware level firewall or use a service that provides real DDoS protection ( this too will cost you something in the upper hundreds or thousands range)."

Curious why you don't think CloudFlare is a reverse proxy. And we actually can help mitigate a lot of DDoS attacks (not all) for sites that are using us.

 

[CloudShadow]

@ damon

Because its extremely easy to find the real server ip of a website if its using cloudflare's DNS. On the other hand, its rather hard to find a website's real ip's if a proper reverse proxy is used.

You guys do offer some DDoS protection but its rather hard to believe that you'll be able to completely mitigate a heavy DDoS attack, lets say 1-2GB.

 

[m107]

@ damon

Because its extremely easy to find the real server ip of a website if its using cloudflare's DNS. On the other hand, its rather hard to find a website's real ip's if a proper reverse proxy is used.

You guys do offer some DDoS protection but its rather hard to believe that you'll be able to completely mitigate a heavy DDoS attack, lets say 1-2GB.

agreed++ , most of small websites can not stop large or huge attack like 1 BG .