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Out of the top 10 hosting companies, only the 3 largest ones could probably have sustained these attacks, and even those providers would like suffer at least mi
by tsturzl 11y ago
Out of the top 10 hosting companies, only the 3 largest ones could probably have sustained these attacks, and even those providers would like suffer at least minor outages. The problem wasn't lack of prevention, but scale of attack. There comes a point where the attack, even when mitigated can cause issues.
They were able to mitigate the attacks quickly, but their bandwidth was saturated.
- StanAngeloff 11y agoI don't disagree and hopefully it didn't come across as blaming Linode for not handling the DDoS more efficiently. My comment was with regards to their inability to communicate with customers about on-going attacks and what was being done to mitigate them. There has been (after nearing 2 weeks of DDoS) just one statement on the status page by a network engineer. No company statement, no information on the measures taken, no e-mails, no support tickets. Nada. We have customers in the Middle East that are geo-blocked from accessing nodes in London. We had to find this ourselves. [1] Furthermore their billing system didn't account for all the downtime. Looking at our latest statement, all instances have been at 100% uptime. [1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/04/linode_back_at_last_after_ten_days_of_hell/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/04/linode_back_at_last_...