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Je suis Linode! This is nothing less than cyber-terrorism, and I hope the FBI is involved. A problem I see with people throwing Linode under the bus is that o

by mjrpes 11y ago

Je suis Linode! This is nothing less than cyber-terrorism, and I hope the FBI is involved. A problem I see with people throwing Linode under the bus is that only the mega hosting providers (AWS/Google) have the resources to mitigate such attacks. I wound hope that the industry can find a solution out there that allows smaller players (Linode, Digital Ocean, etc) to run a hosting business without the threat of DDoS. If everyone moves to the big players, it is a loss for us all: feature-wise, quality-wise, security-wise, cost-wise.

larrymcp 11y ago
"Je suis Linode" what an awesome sentiment... I just signed up for a Linode server. Going to use it for part of our offsite backup storage and to monitor some nodes on our primary network. Huzzah...
tsturzl 11y ago
Still sticking with Linode. This is definitely not their fault. If anything I blame ISPs for letting it happen. ISP's could just simply filter traffic by filtering forged packets, then dropping traffic at a backbone would be trivial, making most botnets obsolete. AWS and Google have resources in place for their own benefit, and hosting with them means you get these benefits to some degree. But the issue is that this complicated infrastructure is only reachable by giants(amazon, google, rackspace, etc). AWS probably spends enough money, collectively, on DDoS mitigation and fallback that it could acquire another hosting company for that sum of money. The to consider the shady practices of who ever is trying to sabotage Linode's business, the likely goal is to direct business elsewhere. So you may end up moving to a hosting company who is shady enough to have caused you a loss of profits for their own profits. Somethings up here, and I'm really curious to find out who did this. I'm not leaving a business because they were a victim of espionage.

by mjrpes 11y ago

larrymcp 11y ago

"Je suis Linode" what an awesome sentiment... I just signed up for a Linode server. Going to use it for part of our offsite backup storage and to monitor some nodes on our primary network. Huzzah...

tsturzl 11y ago

Still sticking with Linode. This is definitely not their fault. If anything I blame ISPs for letting it happen. ISP's could just simply filter traffic by filtering forged packets, then dropping traffic at a backbone would be trivial, making most botnets obsolete. AWS and Google have resources in place for their own benefit, and hosting with them means you get these benefits to some degree. But the issue is that this complicated infrastructure is only reachable by giants(amazon, google, rackspace, etc). AWS probably spends enough money, collectively, on DDoS mitigation and fallback that it could acquire another hosting company for that sum of money. The to consider the shady practices of who ever is trying to sabotage Linode's business, the likely goal is to direct business elsewhere. So you may end up moving to a hosting company who is shady enough to have caused you a loss of profits for their own profits. Somethings up here, and I'm really curious to find out who did this. I'm not leaving a business because they were a victim of espionage.