[chez17]

>Also, there is no guide out there for streamers, or people who are in the public eye on the internet, on how to avoid getting attacked by script kiddies.

A famous StarCraft streamer made a guide on how to avoid this:

https://blog.destiny.gg/protection-from-ddos-attacks/

I googled "guide to preventing DDOS on twitch" and it came up as the fourth result. How hard did you look?

[bargl]

Yeah I've seen this, and gone over it with him. He has some added exposure due to Steam which is another potential risk. I added a bullet point for that.

Thanks for pointing this out but what do you think about the VPS vs VPN. It has an increased exposure to attack because everything else you do on your pc isn't being routed through the VPS.

It also doesn't do anything for best practices for avoiding other forms of hacking. So it's a good guide but definitely incomplete.

I looked pretty hard, I spent the better part of 4 hours just looking around and reading these sort of articles and evaluating whether or not a VPN or a VPS would be better. And in retrospect a VPS might actually be better for his skype connection. So thanks for pointing me to this again so that I could think on that again. I wouldn't have gone back through it otherwise.

[Moru]

The main reason of using a VPN or VPS is that you keep using your normal IP for the stream and the game. Everything else (where the attacker can get your IP) you use the VPN/VPS for. This will not protect your chat or browsing from getting DDOSed but it WILL prevent the attacker from killing your stream and your game. The benefit with using a VPS is the much bigger bandwidth of the host company to soak up the DDOS trafic so you can stay online.

If he has a fixed IP this is too late for him, he needs to get a new IP for this to be useful.

[timboslice]

Skype is definitely #1 on the list. It is remarkably easy to get an IP given a skype username