I am considering hosting something and am concerned about DDOS attacks.
I am morally opposed to cloudflare because I think they are an unethical and shitty company.
What privacy focused solutions are there to reduce the likelihood of a successful DDOS attack?
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You’re being downvoted because you’re asking another “I want everything, but works exactly to my needs, only the way I want it, and cheap.” kind of question.
Cloudflare exists for a reason, as does every other DDOS mitigation platform. If there was a better or cheaper solution, they would be out of business already.
Best you’re probably going to do for self-hosting is going to be blackholing abusive connections, but even then you’re only going to be able to mitigate so much. Differentiation of mass amounts traffic still takes a massive amount of time and compute.
I wouldn’t worry about DDOS attacks at all.
People simply don’t care about whatever small website you plan on hosting. Unless it’s something extremely controversial and you gain a lot of exposure suddenly.
It’s worth worrying about if you ever get big but until then just forget it.
I.E. do something about it when/if it happens and not before. A ddos is fairly harmless unless you need to stay up for some reason (and you don’t need to stay up).
It wouldn’t stop against volumetric attacks…
They’d still fully consume the WAN bearer regardless of Crowdsec protecting the endpoint. For that you need a scrubbing centre to dump the traffic onto.