There's a common misconception about how DDoS protection works.

People imagine a wall. Traffic hits it, bad stuff bounces off.

The reality is closer to a river system.

The key insight is that the protection doesn't sit in front of your server. It sits at the edge of the internet, where the attack originates.

That's the difference between absorbing an attack and never receiving it.

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