Month: October 2024

Creating Your Own CDN: A Step-by-Step Guide

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CDN, or Content Delivery Network, has become essential for improving website performance, reducing latency, and delivering content faster to users across the globe. While there are popular providers that are widely used, some tech-savvy website owners may prefer to create their own Content Delivery Network and have full control over their network. In this step-by-step guide, we’ll explain how to create your own CDN using GeoDNS, perfect for beginners looking to optimize content delivery worldwide.

What is a CDN?

A CDN is a network of distributed servers located across various geographic regions. These servers store copies of your website’s static content, such as images, stylesheets, and scripts. When a user visits your website, the CDN serves the content from the nearest server, reducing load times and improving the user experience.

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Defending Against R.U.D.Y. Attack: What You Need to Know

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In today’s cybersecurity landscape, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks continue to pose significant risks to organizations and businesses. One particularly stealthy and difficult-to-detect attack type is the R.U.D.Y. (R-U-Dead-Yet) attack. Unlike traditional DDoS attacks that overwhelm servers with traffic, R.U.D.Y. attacks focus on slowly consuming server resources, making them a unique and dangerous threat.

In this blog post, we will explore how R.U.D.Y. attacks work, their impact, and how you can defend your infrastructure from this type of cyberattack.

What is a R.U.D.Y. Attack?

R.U.D.Y. is a low-and-slow type of attack that targets web applications by exploiting HTTP POST requests. Instead of sending a large volume of traffic to a server like traditional DDoS attacks, R.U.D.Y. takes advantage of the way web servers handle HTTP POST requests by sending data in small, incomplete packets over a long period.

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