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.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.They are never customers to the businesses of the companies I work for, but they sure manage to harm our businesses.Russisns mostly try to disrupt and steal because thats their foreign policy.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.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.Edit: corrected $500k per month to $50kb per month.