Participate in the “Internet Slowdown” with one click

Re:Participate in the “Internet Slowdown” with one click by eli on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @10:08AM (#8296590)

Just like there's no such thing as "unlimited data storage" there isn't really such a thing as "unlimited DDoS protection." I assume there's SOME limits on how much you get with a free or even $20 plan. I can only imagine what the companies that specialize in DDoS protection charge.

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Re:Participate in the “Internet Slowdown” with one click by spindritf on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @10:14AM (#8296617)

Sure. But if protection starts at $200/mo (CloudFlare Business) then it's not really for smaller sites with a controversial opinion. For $200 you can get two dedicated servers with DDoS protection on top.

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Re:Participate in the “Internet Slowdown” with one click by valarauca1 on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @10:56AM (#8296841)

2 dedicated servers might buy you ~3-4GB/s of DDoS protection. Cloudflair's base model protects from around 100GB/s, which what commonly takes banks offline (Bank of American, or Chase be taken down with ~70GB/s).

They gave talk at defcon21 about migrating a 300-400GB/s DDoS (Roughly 1.25% of all internet traffic in the US at the time was that DDoS).

When you start getting into DDoS's >300GB/s your DDoS will start causing issues for providers, and backbone companies, not just Cloudflair.

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Re:Participate in the “Internet Slowdown” with one click by spindritf on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @11:10AM (#8296896)

I didn't mean going at it alone with two rented boxes but rather a service provided by your operator with the rental like http://www.soyoustart.com/en/anti-ddos.xml

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Re:Participate in the “Internet Slowdown” with one click by rdl on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @02:15PM (#8298037)

Gb everywhere you said GB, just to be fair (gigabits per second, not gigabytes per second)

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