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I wonder if this is a diversion to keep Linode's security team busy so they won't notice someone compromising the Xen nodes with XSA-185/6/7/8?
XSAs are released alarmingly frequently. I've always wondered if KVM is really more secure or if it just gets less scrutiny (certainly there's a class of qemu vulnerabilities that impact both hypervisors).
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I'd love to see a network infrastructure and transport protocol that's more resistant to many (D)DoS attacks, because it seems like things will only worsen if it never becomes more difficult for people to attack others' servers online.
Good luck. A DDoS is basically lots of traffic. Perhaps run IPX? (Joking)
The smaller hosting companies may still very well go out of the game if the problem worsens, even if most DoS venues do end up being mitigated. I don't know how I would respond to that as of this moment, but hopefully it doesn't have to come to that. It's already tough to find a decent hosting company in my experience.
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I'm a one man operation keeping a master-slave setup with a manual failover and it's been pretty smooth sailing once I got it setup. Don't know how much more complex master-master would be.
It's pretty much the same. You almost never want writes on both sides (now in a failover plan anyway), so as long as you have a switch for which side receives the writes, it's simple.
Site B, insure any writes use even numbers for unique field.
This avoids conflict.
https://blog.linode.com/2016/01/29/christmas-ddos-retrospect...
OK, who hosts at Linode and is very popular/pisses people off? 4chan? 9gag? Reddit? Something Awful?
I'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…
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For our setup we just have master-master replication across two different hosting providers.
I've been wondering about this lately. Is it really feasible for a small (one man?) team to keep master-master MySQL replication over WAN running smoothly?
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I think they very much want to, but what can you do if all of your IPs lead to tor exit nodes? From what I've heard, the FBI will collect a whole bunch of information and then sit on their hands because of the above reason.
How can tor nodes be used for that? Tor exposes a SOCKS interface, you can't control TCP/IP with the level of detail needed to perform these attacks.
I wonder if this is a diversion to keep Linode's security team busy so they won't notice someone compromising the Xen nodes with XSA-185/6/7/8?