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1 year agoThey explained that the attacks are in the form of requests that tax the database server, not the website itself.
They explained that the attacks are in the form of requests that tax the database server, not the website itself.
Right, but it’s possible to execute those API requests to trigger those expensive database requests in a way that wouldn’t necessarily trigger cloudflare’s DDoS protection.