This can't be good for (Linode's) business.
Vultr had problems a few weeks ago, but I don't think it was DDOS-related.
Somehow things have been quiet on the DigitalOcean's end.
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#22I've done some googling before asking here: Can anybody explain why Linode is so often targeted like this? We moved Cronitor off Linode in spring 2015. During the christmas holiday when they suffered a 2 week DDOS I thought of the family time I'd be missing that year as we did a crash migration to AWS had we not migrated when we did. I have to imagine this has been horrible for their business. I would use Linode if I…
I am also surprised as this is not the first time I am reading about it on HN. Linode seems to be highly vulnerable to certain attacks as we could see in the past. I hope they will fix it and provide a permanent solution as I was hoping to use them as a part of my network, but I see more and more signals they can't handle serious traffic. Hopefully, they will redesign their infrastructure to handle it. I am with all…
Isn't the problem money? They could certainly fix it but would have to raise the prices on each VPS?
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
We stuck with Linode after that, but the important parts now failover to Vultr.
How did you set it up to failover? Our MySQL database is very large, and I'm not sure of the best way to ensure it is up to date on another host.
For our setup we just have master-master replication across two different hosting providers.
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#24Well, I had Linode shortlisted for an upcoming project. I hate to take them off the list because it is not their fault, but I don't want this kind of unreliability.
> it is not their fault I don't understand this line of reasoning. It's not like DDoS attacks are some kind of 0-day failure mode that nobody has seen before. Would you also say "it is not their fault" if their uplink provider had a fiber cut and they didn't have redundant uplinks? I'm guessing not: it's well understood that has a service provider you need to plan for this kind of unavailability and pay more money fo…
There are a handful of environments that can sustain a large, coordinated DDOS attack. Can you sink 10-20Gb/s of traffic forever? Not cost effectively.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
> it is not their fault I don't understand this line of reasoning. It's not like DDoS attacks are some kind of 0-day failure mode that nobody has seen before. Would you also say "it is not their fault" if their uplink provider had a fiber cut and they didn't have redundant uplinks? I'm guessing not: it's well understood that has a service provider you need to plan for this kind of unavailability and pay more money fo…
There are a handful of environments that can sustain a large, coordinated DDOS attack. Can you sink 10-20Gb/s of traffic forever? Not cost effectively.
If you live in 2002, nah. In 2016? Yes. Bandwidth is cheap and linode has high margins.
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#26I used to be on Linode... then one of their techs tripped on a power cord causing a significant outage in a data center... and no I'm not joking.
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#27Well, I had Linode shortlisted for an upcoming project. I hate to take them off the list because it is not their fault, but I don't want this kind of unreliability.
I have a Linode VPS that is fantastically reliable. It's showing no downtime or problems during this DDOS. They've been great to deal with.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are a handful of environments that can sustain a large, coordinated DDOS attack. Can you sink 10-20Gb/s of traffic forever? Not cost effectively.
If you live in 2002, nah. In 2016? Yes. Bandwidth is cheap and linode has high margins.
Infrastructure to service requests is not (comparitively). Rarely is it trivial to distinguish DDoS traffic from legitimate traffic.
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#29What kind of DDOS attack is the most likely happening here, a simple L3 spoofed ICMP flood?
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#30Well, I had Linode shortlisted for an upcoming project. I hate to take them off the list because it is not their fault, but I don't want this kind of unreliability.
I have a Linode VPS that is fantastically reliable. It's showing no downtime or problems during this DDOS. They've been great to deal with.
My box in ATL is just wicked slow, on the network. Looks like saturation to me. Got stuff in their other DCs which seems OK for now.