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

Webmin Reviewed by Webmin on 1st Apr 2012. Could Flare vs Reverse Proxy as DDoS protection 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 Rating: 5

[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.besthostingforums.com/18-...rse-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]

"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 .