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Yep, this started on Friday (Christmas day). I assume Linode itself is the target of the attacks, since they have spanned multiple regions.
Dallas is their oldest DC, so they have the most customers there and therefore the most attack surface area at that location. It could just as easily be one of their customers.
Yep, this started on Friday (Christmas day). I assume Linode itself is the target of the attacks, since they have spanned multiple regions.
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I have a hard time imagining how supporting multiple providers would cost millions of dollars per year. I think it's a worthwhile way to make your software and infrastructure more resilient. And it protects you from vendor lock-in. As long as you keep things simple and don't use features that are only implemented by one provider, VMs are basically interchangeable.
Human capital cost. Also, infrastructure is expensive by nature. We managed to run four at once with a team of 12 people. As I said before, vendor X ~= vendor Y in some way, so your deal and the service you get are not the same, so there is cost associated with that also. There is a reason to pick a good strong vendor and stick with it. Big names end up building their own data center (they can probably capx it for ta…
I'm having trouble imagining what problems have to be constantly dealt with such that multiple millions of dollars have to go into abstracting the multiple vendors.
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How does one set up to use multiple vendors?
You might consider taking a look at http://www.cloud66.com/
Just 2 days ago, a Linode employee was badmouthing AWS here on HN for being too expensive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10796094 A DDoS will be much more expensive to customers than choosing AWS over Linode (or an equivalent low-priced service). EC2 has been around since 2006, and never has had any issues resembling this.
I was contracted a few months ago to save a website crumbling under its bills. They had $11k / month in AWS bills. Brought it down to $600 / month by switching them to Linode with a more reasonable stack.
Not everything is a nail. Sometimes the mistake is choosing AWS.
This may be a dumb question as I haven't read the bill, but isn't this what CISA is supposed to help guard against in the future? If Linode has an easier way of sharing info with the USG, can that help pinpoint and mitigate this attack from happening in the future? Edit: how about a response instead of downvotes?
Nobody's interested in the defensive side of ""cyberwarfare"".
I would like to correlate the comments in this thread with past comments on every single article about AWS or GCE of the form "this is so expensive / complicated I run my boxes on Linode for half the price". DDoS protection is one of the things you pay for on the big clouds.
I would like to correlate the comments in this thread with past comments on every single article about AWS or GCE of the form "this is so expensive / complicated I run my boxes on Linode for half the price". DDoS protection is one of the things you pay for on the big clouds.
However, how many of the people impacted by the current DDoS against Linode are only affected BECAUSE they are using Linode?