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by youeeeeeediot 3528 days ago
Dyn aside, xTbps DDOS is the new norm.

Expect more of this in the near future, single-source infrastructure is becoming a huge liability (not that it wasn't before). I wonder what impact on SLAs it will have when cloud services providers are taken down - will they honor their SLAs or inject DDOS clauses into them to shield themselves. You won't see many standing up to multi-Tbps attacks, at least for the moment.
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ben_jones 3528 days ago
Doesn't that also provide a huge incentive for cloud offerings to sell DDOS-resistance products and services? Isn't that a huge market already with gigantic margins?
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SysArchitect 3528 days ago
OVH throws their DDoS mitigation system in for free when you host with them.
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raarts 3528 days ago
How does their system work and how effective is it?
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Thaxll 3528 days ago
It's built on FPGA and it's very effective.

https://www.ovh.com/ca/en/anti-ddos/

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dogma1138 3528 days ago
Game servers that are hosted on OVH get DDOSed daily and they drop like flies.

Myself and a lot of friends had servers killed both when renting VPS/Dedicated server or a dedicated "Game Server".

And all and all with considerably smaller botnets like the ones you rent for a few $ per hour.

If you are running a public server you learn quite quickly that if you permaban a cheater or just some annoying kid you should expect to be DDoSed these days.

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dkopi 3528 days ago
Not sure DDOS clauses are that unreasonable. Especially when attackers might be targeting your DNS server, even though you're the target.
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