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What approach did John take to minimize the impact of DDoS attacks using Cloudflare's services?
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To minimize the impact of DDoS attacks, John would have leveraged several Cloudflare features. He would have enabled Cloudflare's DDoS protection, which uses the global network to absorb and mitigate large-scale attacks. Rate limiting would be configured to prevent overwhelming of specific endpoints. The Web Application Firewall (WAF) would be set up with rules to detect and block malicious traffic patterns associated with DDoS attacks. John might have implemented IP reputation-based filtering to block requests from known malicious sources. He would also have set up proper logging and alerting to quickly identify and respond to potential attacks. Additionally, he could have used Cloudflare's load balancing feature to distribute traffic across multiple origin servers, further enhancing resilience against DDoS attacks. John minimized DDoS attack impact by enabling Cloudflare's built-in DDoS protection, configuring rate limiting and WAF rules, implementing IP reputation filtering, and utilizing load balancing, creating a robust defense system against various types of DDoS attacks.