Vercel and DDOS Protection
I run this site for a YouTuber and my usage spiked and went over the free plan limit. I looked into the issue and within an hour, someone made 250k requests to my site. I have DDOS protection enabled I thought. I’m confused on how it got bypassed.
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It’s 242,977 requests
is vercel charging you anything that peak?
Well I was on free plan so it just paused my deployment
I had to upgrade
So I can get the site back up
cant you just create a new deployment? like in terms of a new project
Well does the DDOS protection work or no? Or do I have to implement like cloudfare or something?
Is this normal
I got another mail from Mongo(yes ik there are much better faster solutions) saying I’m exceeding the number of connections for the free plan.
Seems like a ddos attack
I mean vercel claims to somehow check sus requests and then there attack-challenge-mode
absolutely, I honestly thought vercel uses cloudflare under the hood somehow
Yea but it was at 5am 😂
I can’t just know there a ddos attack and enable the challenge mode
Cuz Vercel says that u shouldn’t enable the challenge mode unless you know there is an attack in progress
Seems kinda counter intuitive if you ask me
absolutely, and running it all the time is also cumbersome
i would just do another deployment and live on
Well I already paid money. I didn’t know that would work
I added a spending limit
So if it does happen again, it pauses the deployment
ok, how much did you pay? is it a fixed price or do you pay on demand?
It’s the pro tier for Vercel
ah seems solid yeah but what is meant by "scales with you"?
