https://www.eknix.com/tags/ddos-protection/Recent content in DDoS Protection on Eknix — Web security & performance for the enterpriseHugoen-us© {year} EKNIX LTD. All rights reserved.Wed, 14 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.eknix.com/blog/recaptcha-ddos-cost/Wed, 14 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.eknix.com/blog/recaptcha-ddos-cost/<p>There&rsquo;s a category of question that gets asked quietly in Slack channels and in private post-incident reviews: &ldquo;could we just use reCAPTCHA to handle this?&rdquo; It&rsquo;s not an unreasonable instinct. Google reCAPTCHA is already deployed on most sites, it can challenge suspicious traffic, and it costs nothing for the first ten thousand requests. As a lightweight speed bump, it has its place.</p> <p>But &ldquo;speed bump against DDoS traffic&rdquo; and &ldquo;speed bump against spam submissions&rdquo; are very different things — and running reCAPTCHA into a volumetric attack has a financial profile that most teams haven&rsquo;t priced out before they need to.</p>