Moment of Gratitude: CloudFlare
CloudFlare saved the Internet Archive servers from a TCP Flood yesterday.
The max rate of this DDOS attack was 525 Gbps (44.93 Mpps) of a "TCP flood."
The Internet Archive does not have enough bandwidth to fend off that kind of attack.
Thank you #cloudflare or we would have had a very bad Saturday at the internetarchive (npub1umd…wfr7)
DDOS attacks are coming more frequently.
Brewster Kahle
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2025-06-15 23:09:02 UTC
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