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Comment by jstanley

10 days ago

I don't think hosting the site behind Cloudflare will affect the number of SSH brute-force attempts, these bots are just brute-forcing the entire IPv4 space aren't they?

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djkurlander  10 days ago

Exactly right. I just didn’t want the bad actors to know my own IPv4 address so that they might try to cause havoc or treat my site differently.

  • jstanley  10 days ago

    Roger.

    And cool project btw.

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