How a volunteer-run wildfire site in Portugal stayed online during DDoS attacks

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This post details how Cloudflare's automated DDoS mitigation systems protected the volunteer-run fogos.pt website during two significant attacks, mitigating 33,000 requests per second and 1.7 Gbps of bandwidth without service disruption. It highlights the effectiveness of Cloudflare's systems for smaller, yet critical, public interest sites, and the role of Project Galileo in providing these protections.