Case Study: Eurovision Song Contest restores site stability and performance with Cloudflare

Eurovision keeps 170 million viewers online with Cloudflare DDoS mitigation

The Eurovision Song Contest's website, Eurovision.tv, faced a severe DDoS attack during its critical 2012 semi-finals, taking the site offline when global viewership was at its peak. Their existing content delivery network (CDN) provider was unable to fully mitigate the attack, prompting the need for a more robust solution from Cloudflare.

Cloudflare successfully mitigated the DDoS attack, bringing the site back online and ensuring platform stability. By implementing Cloudflare's CDN and DDoS protection services, Eurovision.tv experienced improved performance and load times. This allowed the organization to rely entirely on Cloudflare, which provided the combined power of attack mitigation and a content delivery network to handle massive traffic volumes securely.

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