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Re: We are under attack

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Post by sounds »

moe wrote: post #56
falconed wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you elaborate on why you think Akamai is horrible?

I've dealt with them in their CDN role on multiple occasions. They're the most abhorrent combination of incompetence and arrogance that I've ever met in the tech industry. They're the Oracle of the network world. Just don't waste your time on them. There's plenty better and cheaper CDNs nowadays. Leave Akamai to the Governments and MegaCorps, they deserve each other.

I can echo your sentiment.

Re: We are under attack

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Post by calbear81 »

State sponsored cyber warfare is something that happens at a scale that normal private companies and organizations are not well equipped to deal with. I wonder if there's someone you can alert in the government who can consider coordinating a counterattack or pass a backchannel note to the right people to cut it out.

Re: We are under attack

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Post by arm »

bovermyer wrote: post #27
cpncrunch wrote: post #17

Move 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.

To be exact, he probably means 64 GiB¹ of RAM (see IEEE 1541-2002²).

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¹ — http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1%20GiB%20to%20MiB%20an...

² — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1541-2002

Re: We are under attack

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Post by _sword »

rprime wrote: post #29
cpncrunch wrote: post #17

Move 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.

Been running a game server on OVH that has been repeatedly DDOS'd by random people. It may take a moment or two to kick in and cause some wonky connectivity around the times of the attacks, but their service has been able to take some attacks in the several GBps range without a problem while we have used them.

Re: We are under attack

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Post by [deleted] »

greedoshotlast wrote: post #58
Dbrinkly wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually the Prolexic product is one of the most innovative and effective one we've seen to date. DDoS attacks are not a commodity issue, you have to pay to play..Not sure how that makes Akamai horrible..

I can confirm that Akamai is a pain to deal with. Defense.Net as well. Cloudflare is what I would chose but they are siding with the Chinese gov't at this point.

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Re: We are under attack

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Post by toomuchtodo »

stevejones wrote: post #68
moe wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've dealt with them in their CDN role on multiple occasions. They're the most abhorrent combination of incompetence and arrogance that I've ever met in the tech industry. They're the Oracle of the network world. Just don't waste your time on them. There's plenty better and cheaper CDNs nowadays. Leave Akamai to the Governments and MegaCorps, they deserve each other.

This is the exact opposite of my interactions with Akamai.

My experience with them was exactly the same as OP. Wanted us to bring buckets of cash for 10-100TB of bandwidth. Went with CacheFly, super satisfied.

Re: We are under attack

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Post by notsony »

AYBABTME wrote: post #75
diminoten wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Forgive my outburst, and maybe this sentiment won't be well received given the context, but I just find it to be downright unpatriotic for a US company like CloudFlare to stand there saying things like what Matt Prince says in your quote, when someone comes under attack by an opposing nation state. Again, I realize this place isn't exactly a bastion for this kind of sentiment, but have some thought for freedom here,…

Not everyone desires to take part in geopolitics and become a tool of diplomacy. Some people just want to do their business and it's perfectly fine in my opinion. You can't force people to be patriotic or to feel a patriotic call.

From the FAQ:

> Due to the sensitive nature of the content on our web sites we prefer to remain anonymous at this point

If they want help they need to be transparent about who they are and what their objective is. One man's tool of diplomacy is anothet man's... etc.

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