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DigitalOcean answers 10,000 DNS queries every second. Cloudflare ensures that’s 100% clean traffic.

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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
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. Read More
About 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. Read More
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. Read More Log in to view content
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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

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 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.

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.

Impact #1	DigitalOcean is now able to reliably serve several thousand DNS answers every second.
Impact #2	The company has ensured 100% clean DNS traffic.
Impact #3	The solution has provided DDoS mitigation on DNS infrastructure, ensuring the security of DigitalOcean's DNS infrastructure against potential attacks.

Impact #1

DigitalOcean is now able to reliably serve several thousand DNS answers every second.

Impact #2

The company has ensured 100% clean DNS traffic.

Impact #3

The solution has provided DDoS mitigation on DNS infrastructure, ensuring the security of DigitalOcean's DNS infrastructure against potential attacks.

Benefit #1	10,000 DNS requests served per second
Benefit #2	100% clean DNS traffic

Benefit #1

10,000 DNS requests served per second

Benefit #2

100% clean DNS traffic

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Overview

DigitalOcean answers 10,000 DNS queries every second. Cloudflare ensures that’s 100% clean traffic.

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