Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71M request-per-second DDoS attack
The startup I work for blocks all of china, russia, belarus and serbian IP space, which saves us about $50kper month in bandwidth charges.<p>The absolutely first thing I do at every company and on every project is ask if I can block russia, china and belarussian IP space, and add all of their ASNs to the bogon list if we run our own bgp.<p>They are never customers to the businesses of the companies I work for, but they sure manage to harm our businesses.<p>Russisns mostly try to disrupt and steal because thats their foreign policy.<p>Chinese just try to destroy and censor. Worked at a company which hosted presentations, one of their 5 million presentations was critical of China. We received over 10,000 phone calls and close to a million emails in two days, and a sustained 10gbps ddos attack for a week.<p>Letting russia and china on the internet was a massive security mistake we should rectify. The world spends literally BILLIONS because chinarussia are frankly assholes online.<p>Edit: corrected $500k per month to $50kb per month.