If you're paying $30000 for a site that is pretty much all static in bandwidth costs a day, you're probably paying about $29990 too much.
This isn't a normal day... 2.6 Billion requests per hour is a LOT of traffic and that isn't free.
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#22If you're paying $30000 for a site that is pretty much all static in bandwidth costs a day, you're probably paying about $29990 too much.
What would you recommend?
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#23I think they need to use something similar to this ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_Content_Distribution_Netw...
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#24Contact Akamai who recently bought the DDOS mitigation service Prolexic. They may be able to mitigate the attack and save you bandwidth costs. Alternatively, call CloudFlare. Don't just absorb this through Amazon.
Don't call Akamai. Never call Akamai. They are horrible.
Try Incapsula, GigENet, Blacklotus, Cloudflare first.
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#25Sitting down and writing a blog-post seems a pretty laid back reaction to $30k/day in Amazon bills... First thing I'd have done is take the site offline and call the various DDoS mitigation services (Incapsula, Cloudflare, etc.). Pretty surely most of them would gladly pick up the slack here, given the free PR (possibly even in mainstream press) they get in return.
Not sure that turning the light off is the first thing you want to do when you're bullied.
And pretty certain that there's zero PR value in those stories.
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#26This is interesting. Though Hacker News appears to not be blocked, it has been flagged as "Contradictory" on certain days. Is the Chinese government blocking certain news items?
Take a look here: https://en.greatfire.org/news.ycombinator.com
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#27Move to OVH -- they offer free DDoS protection as standard, and unlimited bandwidth. I just moved to OVH after getting DDoSed. I'm paying $109/month for a quad core 3.7Ghz Xeon, 64GB RAM, dual 2TB software RAID. It's a pretty sweet deal, and I haven't had any problems so far.
I assume you mean 64GB of RAM.
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#28Move to OVH -- they offer free DDoS protection as standard, and unlimited bandwidth. I just moved to OVH after getting DDoSed. I'm paying $109/month for a quad core 3.7Ghz Xeon, 64GB RAM, dual 2TB software RAID. It's a pretty sweet deal, and I haven't had any problems so far.
> 64MB RAM
Oh really? :-)
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#29Move to OVH -- they offer free DDoS protection as standard, and unlimited bandwidth. I just moved to OVH after getting DDoSed. I'm paying $109/month for a quad core 3.7Ghz Xeon, 64GB RAM, dual 2TB software RAID. It's a pretty sweet deal, and I haven't had any problems so far.
Unrelated to the story at hand. Have you been recently DDoSed on OVH? I know that (at least some time ago) they just null-route/deactivate your account on spot with no notification on anything that looks like a DDoS.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Route them through a cached captcha page. Or just call cloudflare.
Haven't sites been DDoS'd that were using Cloudflare? Its good, but not a magic bullet.
Yeah, but my understanding is that it helps a lot. CloudFlare masks the actual IP address of the web site, and distributes the load through the CloudFlare platform.
It's still possible to overload that capacity, but it's a lot more than what any standalone web server can take. Furthermore, the web server itself will stay online, as it isn't actually getting hit by the flood of requests.