Case Study: Buycraft keeps Minecraft webstores online and blocks 20M malicious requests with Cloudflare Rate Limiting

Buycraft protects its customers' gCommerce shops with Cloudflare’s Rate Limiting

Buycraft is a webstore platform powering ecommerce for over 500,000 Minecraft servers, providing an admin control panel, payment processing, subscriptions, and analytics. Because Minecraft servers are competitive, Buycraft frequently faced DDoS attacks; a roughly 10 Gbps attack exposed limits of their previous provider, which demanded extra payment and left their site down, so they needed a more affordable, reliable long-term solution.

Buycraft switched to Cloudflare and enrolled in its Early Access Rate Limiting to set per-IP request thresholds for Layer 7 attacks. Cloudflare blocked 20 million malicious requests during an attack, prevented any service interruptions, and delivered dependable, cost-effective protection so Buycraft could keep online stores open and process transactions without disruption.

Buycraft

Lee McNeil

Chief Technology Officer