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I'm less scared of the hoster pulling down your site - not the end of the world - then decided to charge you bandwidth fees for all the MS-DOS attacks. The former presumably has no financial impact, the latter, potentially brutal
Considering there are probably near-zero MS-DOS machines online these days, I expect their attacks wouldn't cost very much.
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> I'm not too worried about someone DDOSing my personal site. Yeah, they could do it. And then what? Who cares? Have you experienced a targeted DDoS attack on your personal site? I have. I too had this attitude like yours when I didn't know how nasty targeted DDoS attacks can get. If you're not too worried about someone DDoSing your personal site, then your host taking your website down and then you having to run cir…
My hoster wouldn't take me down though. Instead it will protect me for free: https://www.hetzner.com/unternehmen/ddos-schutz
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I'm less scared of the hoster pulling down your site - not the end of the world - then decided to charge you bandwidth fees for all the MS-DOS attacks. The former presumably has no financial impact, the latter, potentially brutal
Off-topic, but there are six different people using the word "hoster" in this thread. I've never heard that word used instead of "host" or "hosting service" before, and yet here it's somehow prevalent. I feel like I'm having a stroke, or I just stepped into an alternate universe. Where did you all pick up that word?
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As long as the hoster doesn’t actively make things worse by disconnecting you, any further help is just a happy accident. The bar is very low.
I'm less scared of the hoster pulling down your site - not the end of the world - then decided to charge you bandwidth fees for all the MS-DOS attacks. The former presumably has no financial impact, the latter, potentially brutal
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Off-topic, but there are six different people using the word "hoster" in this thread. I've never heard that word used instead of "host" or "hosting service" before, and yet here it's somehow prevalent. I feel like I'm having a stroke, or I just stepped into an alternate universe. Where did you all pick up that word?
That's just English being irregular. One that hosts websites should be called a hoster in principle :)
Hoster is new to me too.
But I get it as a pattern. (If you dine at the party then you are a diner.)
You don't need to burn a DDoS capability to launch a DDoS attack. You just need to pay a few bucks to a booter service. A few minutes of searching turned up these:
https://hardstresser.org/ (this one looks like it offers a free trial)
> For your small blog with one hundred visitors per month, it's probably the same: "no one will burn their DDoS capabilities on you!" If this is their core argument for not using CDN, then this post sounds like a terribly bad advice. Hopes and prayers do not make a valid security strategy. Appropriate controls and defenses do. The author seems to be completely missing that it takes only a few bucks to buy DDoS as a s…
their stack has been some of the easiest low-hanging fruits for enhancing self-managed web stuff. almost everyone who agrees with this sentiment is also relying on someone else in the chain to keep their sites up. in my limited experience, the latter ended up being less reliable in the past decade or so.
funnily enough the site was (momentarily) not loading for me, but instantly did right after.
If you have a blog with 100 visitors per month why would you worry about being hit by an 4-8 hours outage once every year or two? I like Cloudflare because it is easy to setup and manage and because the amount of value you get for free or just a few bucks per month can’t be matched by any other company. Sure, if my income depends on my website/service uptime then I would probably consider other options. I think for m…
Cloudflare went down for 5 hours this year. That’s 99.94% uptime.
For real, who cares? Get a life and take a nice walk or something.
Let the big enterprises worry about their backup plan.