Protecting the IP from DDOS

[richard_s]

These are the steps I've taken to protect the IP.

• Domain is on a dedicated IP.*
• All traffic is routed through Cloudflare which only has two records, an A record for the domain and a cname record for WWW.
• Outgoing email for scripts including for registration have been disabled.
• As precautionary measure the outgoing email limit for the domain has been set to 0.
  
• This is a forum and remote file uploads from a URL (e.g. for an avatar) have always been disabled.

*I've used Plesk for ten years, where in WHM/Cpanel is the setting so a default domain is not served when the request is for IP? e.g. instead of serving http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/distinct_image_to_sniff_the_IP_of_domain.jpg serve an error page or whatever.

Is there anything I'm missing? For example what about DNS records on the server, do I even need them with Cloudlfare DNS? Error documents that might spit out an email address?