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Re:Ask HN: What is it with the recent DDoS attacks on Linode? by brianwawok on Thursday December 31, 2015 @04:41PM (#10819845)
Do you have cattle or pets?

Moving cattle should mostly be a DNS flip. Moving pets is harder... and a good reason to avoid pets ;)

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Re:Ask HN: What is it with the recent DDoS attacks on Linode? by reefoctopus on Thursday December 31, 2015 @04:52PM (#10819900)
How is moving to another provider just a DNS flip? It's a huge pain no matter how it was designed. How can you move 100s of GBs of data when your servers are being DDOSed to hell multiple times per day?
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Re:Ask HN: What is it with the recent DDoS attacks on Linode? by brianwawok on Friday January 01, 2016 @05:28PM (#10823793)
Well the people here are on Linode, which as far as I know has no concept of S3 type storage.. so they don't have "100s of GB of data", more likely some apps and maybe a database or two that should be backed up offsite anyway (perhaps to S3 itself).

If making your environment is running ansible-playbook bootstrap.yml, life is not that terrible to move.

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