What are those many ways? Help me understand - I've been doing this shit a long time and I can't think of many ways to provide what Cloudflare does in a way that is cheap, easy, and scalable without working at the HTTP layer. So please help me learn something new, what are those ways?
offer a l2 load balancer that act as a queue. if the site decides its a dos/bad request it sends either a dowgraded response the load balancer can read or a side channel comms. then the load balancer drop everything from that ip or other identifiable patterns based only on l2 info.
there are many others. just buy a book for industries that value privacy or pay someone.
