• some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Easier and cheaper to outsource your site’s security to someone else. God forbid you have to learn the cyber. Simple as.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      3 hours ago

      Some things aren’t as easy to mitigate, like DDOS attacks. If that’s a legitimate concern, something like Cloudflare makes a ton of sense.

      • conorab@lemmy.conorab.com
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        2 hours ago

        It surprises me that companies like Uber depend on them. You’d think that by the time you’re as big as Uber that you’d be able to just endure a DDoS but I guess the threat of multi-terabit DDoSs and the cost of the associated downtime would be enough to scare anybody smaller than AWS.

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          14 minutes ago

          And why take the risk? Just pay Cloudflare to take care of it instead of getting all the expertise in house, surely that’s cheaper, no?