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Re:Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking... by siva7 on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @09:57AM (#37832163)
A protection tax? You realize that DDoS protection costs them providers real money?
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Re:Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking... by mihaic on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @10:02AM (#37832235)
Yes, but cloud providers share that protection over all customers. Someone hosting their own websites needs the same level of protection just for themselves.

DDoS is really the only thing that you can't host yourself on your own machines in today's internet.

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Re:Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking... by siva7 on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @11:16AM (#37833162)
I don't think they do. There are a variety of DDoS attacks which require more expensive computing to detect
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