[kwlug-disc] Blocking Bittorrrent

[Hubert Chathi]

On Mon, 16 Nov 2015 23:27:25 -0500, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> said:

> No. I use it for clients.  It is basically a Varnish server for the
> free tier (caching reverse proxy).

> For the paid tiers, they have a web application firewall, which is
> supposed to do what I want (protect from spammers etc.). But the fact
> is that it is both useless for real spammers, and over aggressive for
> legit users (forces a CAPTCHA on them, even logged in ones).

That feature is available for the free tier as well, though I think the
free tier has less knobs to tweak.  It blocks a lot of Tor traffic,
which depending on your views may be either a good thing or a bad thing.