Cloudflare is the industry's leading web infrastructure and website security provider. It creates a layer of security and fast content delivery between a website and its users, hence routing all the traffic through its servers, which enables security and other features on websites. In 2017, Cloudflare provided DNS services to over 12 million websites. These services include content delivery networks, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack protection, hacking attempt protection, and other internet security services, such as leeching protection.Â
In 2014, Cloudflare reported mitigating a 400 Gib/s DDoS attack on a customer, which was soon followed by a 500 Gib/s attack the next year. The largest attack on any website recorded has been on GitHub, where it faced a DDoS of 1.4Tb/s flooding. GitHub was using Akamai Prolexic ...
