Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Don Y Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Chinese downloads overloading my website Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 18:26:16 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <7qujui58fjds1isls4ohpcnp5d7dt20ggk@4ax.com> <65f36e09$0$3158691$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 01:26:25 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c86af28dc75bef790d14c8cfb4054056"; logging-data="2045587"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/hw79sBDUuC8UlVtctboRm" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:4LwyHc9AcXKpqre8ScY+dvyc44E= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <65f36e09$0$3158691$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> Bytes: 1979 On 3/14/2024 2:37 PM, bitrex wrote: > Maybe consider hosting the web server yourself, using a virtual machine/Promox > as the host and a Cloudflare tunnel for security: The advantage is that you can institute whatever policies you want. The DISadvantage is that YOU have to implement those policies! And, nothing prevents your site from being targeted for a [D]DoS attack, etc. Or, any other behavior that increases the cost to you (in terms of your effort or servicing/hosting fees from provider(s). It's often easier (less hassle) to just avail yourself of some free service to host the content and let THEM worry about these issues. (unless you enjoy dicking with this sort of thing)