[buro9]

> Now we see Linode offering DDOS (maybe saving you money from paying CloudFlare)?

I work for Cloudflare, and we do not charge you money for our DDoS protection. It's free and included on every plan level including our free level, and the protection you get is equal to the protection our enterprise customers get.

In other product features we have we also work hard to make sure we do not charge you for any bad traffic, i.e. our HTTP rate limiting product has the pricing structure designed so that you aren't paying for the traffic stopped by it.

Pricing really isn't the issue here, but where Linode and other hosts adding DDoS protection helps is in the scenarios where your origin / host IP or provider is known. In those scenarios attackers may directly attack the host.

Just as elsewhere in security, you are as strong as your weakest link, and I am really pleased to see hosting companies expand their DDoS protection.

The various disclaimers: I am the engineering manager for DDoS protection at Cloudflare, and I run a little farm of machines at Linode :) I'm happy on both fronts with this announcement from Linode.

[stavros]

As a very satisfied CloudFlare customer (read "leech", since I'm using the free tier), I have seen your dashboard serve 300 GB of data for me some days, which never reached my server because of caching. It would be nice to be able to see a list of the ten most bandwidth-using URLs for a period, so I can maybe save you some bandwidth in case it's an attack or something similar.

Currently, since I use caching, I never see what consumed the bandwidth, so I don't know what file people are downloading so much.

(P.S. Hey David, long time! I hope everything is going well)

[buro9]

Consider that a feature request heard, I'll make sure the product and engineering managers who do the HTTP and cache analytics know about it.

Mind if I put them in touch with you?

And hey again, long time no speak... if you're in London let me know. Otherwise one day I'll make it to wherever you are in the world now.

[StavrosK]

Thanks! No, I don't mind at all, thank you.

I will let you know next time I'm in London, it's been a while. I'm still in Thessaloniki, let me know if you're ever around!