alt Hacker NewsIf you don't need global access, I have found that Geoblocking is the best first step. Especially if you are in a small country with a small footprint and you can get away at blocking the rest of the world. But even if you live in the US, excluding Russia, India, Iran and a few others will cut your traffic by double digit percent.
In the article, quite a few listed sources of traffic would simply be completely unable to access the server if the author could get away with a geoblock.
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Reminds me of when 4chan banned Russia entirely to stop DDOSes. I can't find it but there was a funny post from Hiro saying something like "couldn't figure out how to stop the ddos. Banned Russia. Ddos ended. So Russia is banned. /Shrug"
We've had a similar discussion at my work. E-commerce that only ships to North America. So blocking anyone outside of that is an option.
Or I might try and put up Anubis only for them.
This makes me a little sad. There's an ideal built into the Internet, that it has no borders, that individuals around the world can connect directly. Blocking an entire geographic region because of a few bad actors kills that. I see why it's done, but it's unfortunate