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by endijs 3571 days ago
I'm not really sure why "Linode" and "DDOS" makes the news. It happens regularly. And is nothing to be surprised about. What is new is how they managed to get their systems upgraded to the point where DDOS does not matter anymore. After big blackout (when they were under attack for weeks and even one of their DC's was completely offline for more than a day) their defenses have become way better. Of course - maybe attacks are not so big. I do not know that. It's my 8th year with them. During those years only once (I think) I had downtime because of those DDOS attacks. Not bad at all.
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matt_wulfeck 3570 days ago
It's a huge deal for a linode customer. It's not like your site is DDoS'd and you can't access. You can't access anything on linode when their entire service is DDoS'd.

Part of the reason I think it's news is to shame linode. The likelihood of a DDoS attack bringing down the AWS management console is extremely low (has it ever happened?) Yet attackers have managed to do it multiple times on Linode.

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endijs 3570 days ago
I'm one of those customers (for 8th year already) and for me it's not a big deal. Unless you are one of those high profile customers who needs constant API access, those few minutes of downtime is not a big deal. Not everyone is spinning up and down new instances all the time. Plus - not all attacks result in downtime for them. Sometimes you do not notice at all, sometimes responsiveness will suffer a bit. And as I said - their defenses have become way better than they were a year ago. And it's not really fair to compare Linode to AWS. It would be more interesting to see how would DigitalOcean handle the same amount of attacks. And I doubt DO would handle them any better than Linode.
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oliwarner 3570 days ago
Speaking as a customer, I've never actually seen any direct service downtime as a result of a DDOS. Specific services (usually their web manager) have gone down but that hasn't affected my clients' sites running on my servers.

Obvious scope for improvement —and I've no doubt this is a constant engineering sink— but not being able to commission new nodes through the web interface for a few hours hasn't yet ruined my day.

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