Wow, is it finally my turn to be attacked?
TL;DR#
This DDoS attack did not cause any substantial damage and did not affect the normal access to my blog.
Cloudflare's records show a total of 3 million HTTP DDoS attack requests, while the remaining 1 million requests were intercepted by custom firewall rules.
Incident#
Initially, I didn't notice that my blog was under a DDoS attack. At that time, I was chatting with friends from all over the world on Telegram and QQ. When I opened the Cloudflare dashboard, I casually glanced at the WAF events as usual, and then I noticed many abnormal access records.
Upon further investigation, it turned out to be an HTTP DDoS attack. The Cloudflare dashboard was filled with the word "Blocked".
Then I checked my email and found that Cloudflare had sent me 13 emails in a row, all about my website being targeted by a DDoS attack.
I barely have any traffic, why would someone attack me? (Confused black question mark.webp)
I found it quite amusing that they targeted my static site and even attacked through Cloudflare.
This attack resulted in a total of 27 GB of traffic and approximately 4.8 million requests. However, since my blog is hosted on Cloudflare Pages, it did not have any substantial impact and the blog remained accessible.
This is the first time my blog has encountered a DDoS attack. I should definitely make a note of this.
In any case, I hope none of you ever have to experience the fear and worry of being attacked.