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DigitalOcean answers 10,000 DNS queries every second. Cloudflare ensures that’s 100% clean traffic.
Technology Category
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries
- Telecommunications
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
Use Cases
- Cybersecurity
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
The Challenge
DigitalOcean, the third largest cloud provider on the planet, was facing a potential threat of malicious attacks targeting DNS servers. With a vast number of developers relying on DigitalOcean to serve their content, the company needed to ensure that their DNS resolutions were fast and always online anywhere in the world. Despite not having experienced a DDoS attack, DigitalOcean sought a proactive solution to ensure the security of their DNS infrastructure against such attacks in the future.
About The Customer
DigitalOcean is a rapidly growing company that offers a simple and cost-effective solution for developers to create private, virtualized cloud servers in under a minute. Since its launch three years ago, the company has seen rapid adoption in the developer community and has become the third largest cloud provider in the world, soon to be second only to Amazon Web Services. DigitalOcean serves several thousand DNS answers every second, answering 10,000 DNS requests per second.
The Solution
In July 2014, DigitalOcean became one of the first test customers of Cloudflare’s new DNS proxy service, called Virtual DNS. With all of their DNS requests proxied and cached at Cloudflare’s edge, DigitalOcean was able to reliably serve several thousand DNS answers every second. The Virtual DNS service stops attack traffic at Cloudflare’s edge, before it ever reaches DigitalOcean’s nameservers. This not only saves resources for real customer traffic but also prevents nameservers from being knocked offline by potential attacks.
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