What is DDoS Cloudflare?

A Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS) seeks to make an online service unavailable to its end users. Caching your content at Cloudflare also protects your website against small DDoS attacks, but uncached assets require additional manual response to DDoS attacks.

What is DDoS protection?

DDoS mitigation refers to the process of successfully protecting a targeted server or network from a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. By utilizing specially designed network equipment or a cloud-based protection service, a targeted victim is able to mitigate the incoming threat.

What happens if u get Ddosed?

A DDoS attack is a type of cyberthreat based on sending too many requests to an online resource, forcing that site or resource offline. A web server suffering the effects of a successful DDoS attack will slow down or become completely inaccessible to users.

Is your Cloudflare network under DDoS attack?

Cloudflare has a 100 Tbps network, which is an order of magnitude greater than the largest DDoS attack recorded. If you are currently under attack, there are steps you can take to get out from under the pressure. If you are on Cloudflare already, you can follow these steps to mitigate your attack.

What is a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack?

A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt normal traffic of a targeted server, service or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of Internet traffic.

What is a layer 3 DDoS attack?

Like all DDoS attacks, the goal of a layer 3 attack is to slow down or crash a program, service, computer, or network, or to fill up capacity so that no one else can receive service. L3 DDoS attacks typically accomplish this by targeting network equipment and infrastructure.

What is a DDoS mitigation?

DDoS mitigation refers to the process of successfully protecting a targeted server or network from a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. By utilizing specially designed network equipment or a cloud-based protection service, a targeted victim is able to mitigate the incoming threat.