# Preventing DDoS on a Discourse instance?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/preventing-ddos-on-a-discourse-instance/133348>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [November 13, 2019, 11:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/preventing-ddos-on-a-discourse-instance/133348 "2019-11-13T23:24:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![ckshen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@ckshen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ckshen)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 4:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/preventing-ddos-on-a-discourse-instance/133348/10 "2022-03-14T04:17:39Z")

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Without going through a service like Cloudflare, I presume Discourse out of the box doesn’t leak IP in any way?

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