I was reading the blog post "August 22nd DDoS Learning Review, and saw where it mentions “This affected all users with an A record pointed to the IP address of our load balancer. It’s important to understand that we always encourage users to use our full blown CDN instead, by pointing a CNAME at our…

Hey @Mei152 :wave:t2: Welcome to The Community :slight_smile: That’s a great question. For starters, feel free to point your team member(s) to The Community and this thread if you prefer. The team here (including Community members such as myself and Netlify Support Engineers) would be happy to tal…

@Mei152 As @jonsully pointed out, if you are using Netlify name servers you don’t have to worry about DDoS taking down your site (unless it is a monster of an attack, presumably), but you might run up some bandwidth charges.

I was wondering if there was a way to have a dedicated machine be a firewall or just something else FREE by using hardware (or software) to protect myself. Obviously common sense is a good protection along with using secure passwords etc, krogereschedule how else do I protect myself?

@jonsully thank your for the prompt and helpful reply!

@Mei152 Yes, you would need to employ some sort of analytics … and then monitor the results.

Your team overview should also show you your current bandwidth usage: [image] Announcing Netlify Team Overview: Collaborate Easier, Develop Faster Announcing Team Overview, a central dashboard in the Netlify UI that surfaces the most important information about your team and the web pro…

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Mei152 December 8, 2020, 12:56pm 6

@gregraven, you mention running up bandwidth charges. What is the best way to realize you have a situation before it goes on too long and runs into money? Would enabling analytics give me all the tools I need?

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