How to deal with DDos attack?

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@julian I bet every single penny I have that DDoS attacks will have no effect on my site, unless you use a really big botnet.
My provider uses Arbor and Tilera systems against these sort of attacks and is well known for its strong anti-ddos capabilites.

bitspook

Try running your URL through Cloudpiercer.org... if your origin IP is exposed, cloud-based mitigation is largely useless when DNS attacks are still such an effective threat. Not all the bad guys are only toting Low Orbit Ion Cannons.

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@bitspook, still I have full confidence into my provider and am sure that he will be able to block all attacks. If not I will get my money back.

Joykiller

@julian said:

or service suspension/termination

@julian curious, what do you consider a high risk customer?

@AOKP Yep, most hosts will drop your service either by termination or suspension if you get DDoS'ed. This is why reading your Terms of Service is very important.

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@Joykiller well and thats why I am boasting a little with mine. They have a 100% anti-DDoS guarantee. There is no bandwith limit nor any maximum ammount of attacks.

Actually they are known for having one of the best protections in the world.

Joykiller

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@Joykiller well and thats why I am boasting a little with mine. They have a 100% anti-DDoS guarantee. There is no bandwith limit nor any maximum ammount of attacks.

Actually they are known for having one of the best protections in the world.

Thats good. What host is it? I'm always on the look for good hosting. I use a gaming server host for most of my VPS's they been best I've ever used with great DDoS protection on Internap.

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@Joykiller it is OVH.
Currently they are the world 3rd biggest hosting company, currently working to have 1.000.000 servers.

Also be sure to take a look at Kimsufi & SoYouStart. Both are owned by OVH, providing cheap servers for smaller projects/mid-sized projects.

Joykiller

@AOKP Oh yeah heard of them, used them for a month or so didn't really find them that appealing, imo. I honestly use a Gaming server provider mainly because they hardened them selves over the years due to kids DDoSing servers. Their support is top notch, literally 1-2 min ticket responses even at like 2 am. They have an amazing SLA. While on a Tier 1 backbone, 20000-50000 Mbps bandwidth ports. Oh yeah and one of my main reasons, free windows 2008/2012 license. (But mainly only use that for game servers hah.)

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@Joykiller... Windows....
OVH improved enormously in the past years and thanks to an attractive pricing and good service (except you use Kimsufi) they are getting more and more popular.

In the end everyone has to decide it by himself.

Joykiller

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@Joykiller... Windows....
OVH improved enormously in the past years and thanks to an attractive pricing and good service (except you use Kimsufi) they are getting more and more popular.

In the end everyone has to decide it by himself.

Yeah I know, I wish all game developers would use linux binaries for their game servers but nope. I will also not run them under wine because usually most don't work with it, the ones that do usually end up losing like huge performance vs windows box.