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by nickjj 2339 days ago
Well done Linode.

I wonder how quickly DigitalOcean will add this to remain competitive.

It's a huge win to have your hosting provider handle this and it's also nice to not be "forced" into using Cloudflare for such an important feature.
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acetheface 2337 days ago
DigitalOcean has had free DDOS protection for quite awhile. And it sounds like Linodes solution is fairly similar. DigitalOcean decided to not advertise the fact because advertising your defenses is an open invitation to break them.

They still null route when the upstream links become congested but this is becoming less and less frequent as their network edge grows.

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nickjj 2336 days ago
Do you have any documentation that mentions your droplets are protected from a ddos attack without you having to do anything?

Even DO themselves mention they don't protect against it and even go as far as saying to use Cloudflare.

Here's a tweet of that from Jan 2018: https://twitter.com/digitalocean/status/958364631671758854?l...

Is that them taking the "not advertising it" line to the next level by publicly stating they don't protect you even though they do? I'm a bit skeptical.

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