In The Before Times, there were very few problematic DDOS operations because... they would all DDOS one another offline. Websites, control infrastructure, anything.
DDOS protection services were provided by companies like Akamai; call for pricing, big companies only, absolutely no anonymous sign-ups.
Cloudflare revolutionised the industry by providing free DDOS protection to anyone, including DDOS-for-hire services. Preventing them from DDOSing one another offline really let the DDOS industry take flight.
DDOS protection services were provided by companies like Akamai; call for pricing, big companies only, absolutely no anonymous sign-ups.
Cloudflare revolutionised the industry by providing free DDOS protection to anyone, including DDOS-for-hire services. Preventing them from DDOSing one another offline really let the DDOS industry take flight.