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Re: DDoS Protection

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Post by re-thc »

skilled wrote: post #2

I’m going to bite and ask myself, Do you only have to pay if you have been exposed to an attack?

> Do you only have to pay if you have been exposed to an attack?

It's like insurance. Do you buy it after an accident or before?

Re: DDoS Protection

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Post by mdasen »

skilled wrote: post #2

I’m going to bite and ask myself, Do you only have to pay if you have been exposed to an attack?

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/ddos/detai...

You pay for it at a price of 20% of your plan's price. If you have a $25/mo plan, it'll be a $5 add-on. You can enable/disable it so that it's only on when you want it and it is pro-rated in that case. If you want to respond to an attack for 2 weeks of the month, it'll cost $2.50. So you can manually turn it on if you're under attack and only pay for that time, but if you want it to automatically handle an attack you have to pay for the month.

I think most people would just turn it on if they were a likely attack target. You don't want your site to go down and either get paged or find out about it hours later. If you're an unlikely attack target or a site that can stand some downtime, you could leave it off and just enable it when under attack.

Re: DDoS Protection

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Post by nubinetwork »

> You will be charged up to 20% based on your total monthly resource usage covered by DDoS Protection with a total monthly maximum of $1000/mo.

I get that someone has to pay for this, but if I had 50 servers here and they all got shit on, I'd be on the hook for a lot of money through no fault of my own.

Re: DDoS Protection

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Post by janejeon »

At the risk of sounding like the "why do you need DropBox if you have rsync herr derr" guy, why... do I need DDoS protection from my VPS provider if I have Cloudflare anyway?

Re: DDoS Protection

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Post by whitepoplar »

janejeon wrote: post #6

At the risk of sounding like the "why do you need DropBox if you have rsync herr derr" guy, why... do I need DDoS protection from my VPS provider if I have Cloudflare anyway?

Isn't it trivial to discover the origin IP and then just hit it directly?

Re: DDoS Protection

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Post by skilled »

mdasen wrote: post #4
skilled wrote: post #2

I’m going to bite and ask myself, Do you only have to pay if you have been exposed to an attack?

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/ddos/detai... You pay for it at a price of 20% of your plan's price. If you have a $25/mo plan, it'll be a $5 add-on. You can enable/disable it so that it's only on when you want it and it is pro-rated in that case. If you want to respond to an attack for 2 weeks of the month, it'll cost $2.50. So you can manually turn it on if you're under attack and only pay for tha…

That makes sense. Thanks.

Re: DDoS Protection

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Post by robbiemitchell »

nubinetwork wrote: post #5

> You will be charged up to 20% based on your total monthly resource usage covered by DDoS Protection with a total monthly maximum of $1000/mo. I get that someone has to pay for this, but if I had 50 servers here and they all got shit on, I'd be on the hook for a lot of money through no fault of my own.

That’s pretty much how insurance works. This is a 20% fee for DDoS insurance.
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