Question about Workers & DDoS
I am considering using Cloudflare Workers to host a Next.js website, but I have a question regarding billing in case of a DDoS attack.
Currently, I use Vercel, and they compensate for the usage caused by such attacks.
If a website hosted on Cloudflare Workers were to be targeted by a DDoS attack, would Cloudflare account for the additional usage in the billing, or they provide any compensation or protection to prevent unexpected charges?
I have never hosted a site on Cloudflare Workers before, so I would appreciate any clarification on this matter.
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Ddos should be blocked by our products
But yes, if they do not stop an attack we will make sure you're not charged for that. If that was to happen, just open a ticket and we can help out
Feel free to ping me and I can make sure it's seen by the right people.
Also helps that assets is free, likely a ddos would hit a static asset and it wouldn't be charged anyway
But that depends on the site, obviously not always the case (like SSR)
Thanks a lot, if that was to happen, where can I open a ticket? Directly on CF dashboard? (currently i'm a free user)
Yep, support at the top of the dashboard and then open a "Billing" ticket
All users can open these tickets
Thanks! ✅
Lastly, static assets requests are counted here?
no
Static assets are free and do not count to Workers requests
https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/static-assets/billing-and-limitations/#billing
I have another question about caching, in local my homepage is marked as cached, but when deployed on Workers, is not