Wow, still a lot of people fighting over whether or not Linode is a good company. It's a shame we don't get to see how <hipster hosting company of the month> co

Wow, still a lot of people fighting over whether or not Linode is a good company. It's a shame we don't get to see how <hipster hosting company of the month> copes with 80gbps of DDoS on a single DC. I'm personally happy with Linode. They have a seriously tough technical issue to deal with —as much working out what's happening as how to stop it— and they seem to be doing a fairly top job at staying afloat. My servers haven't gone down. Any downtime in the last four years has been my fault. So even if they are targets of some ludicrously powerful botnet, I'd rather stay with them than let the bastards doing this win. The attack isn't hurting my business or my clients and each incident we go through, the lower the chances of it ever being a problem in the future. On a more serious note, governments keep moaning on about encryption but botnets are still a much greater direct threat to national security.