How does Cloudflare and other hosting services mitigate and/or prevent DDOS attacks?
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Trying to go for a real ELI5:
Imagine a really really big bodyguard for a celebrity. Normal people can ask the bodyguard to go talk to the celebrity and the bodyguard will let them through.
However, if the bodyguard notices someone charging at the celebrity the bodyguard can step in the way and take the blow so they don’t reach the celebrity.
The bodyguard is Cloudflare and the website is the celebrity
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