[rickr]

While certainly not a startup I manage an altcoin pool and DDOS seems to be a big deal in this space. In fact my pool (http://awesomehash.com) just got his this morning.

It's a really bad feeling. Our miners really have no reason to stay with us. For a majority of them, as long as the servers are up there's no difference between pools. If our servers go down, even through no fault of our own we stand to lose a bunch of our members, and who knows if they'll come back.

As for solutions, we implemented a few new iptables rules, and we ended moving from DO to another VPS provider who has DDOS mitigation. There really isn't much you can do.