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by cpncrunch 3996 days ago
They say they have facilities to clean 480Gbps of data, and 5Tbps of mostly spare inbound bandwidth, so their DDoS mitigation capacity is somewhere in that range (http://www.ovh.com/ca/en/a1171.protection-anti-ddos-service-...).
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Customer testimony on places like Webhosting Talk have cast all of those numbers into serious doubt. OVH is more likely to nullroute your IPs than it is to fight off a 300gig attack.
Do you have a ref for that? I did quite a few searches and didn't find a single person on webhostingtalk saying they had been null-routed by OVH in the past year. Only one guy who worked for a competing hosting provider.
Shut down this guy's account during an attack:

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1467534&highl...

That said, I'm not a personal search engine. Here's a link to search results:

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/search.php?searchid=1555010

He said OVH didn't give a reason for shutting him down, which seems unusual. Perhaps he's breaking their ToS?

OVH themselves say they protect 24/7 against DDoS attacks, regardless of duration or size.

480Gbps across all their datacenters. Each datacenter only has 160Gbps, and I doubt that they'll devote all of that to one client.
They do activate all 3 datacenters. https://www.ovh.com/ca/en/anti-ddos/hoovering-up.xml