Speaking as someone who ran a very popular video chat service that had on average 5+ DDoS attacks a day, I can tell you that the vast majority of our attacks we

Speaking as someone who ran a very popular video chat service that had on average 5+ DDoS attacks a day, I can tell you that the vast majority of our attacks were under 1gbps in size. Usually the 'attackers' would use services you can rent on hackforums for 5-10$/week to 'boot' websites and people offline. Thats why I was asking about how efficient this was on a per-server basis and why I think a answer would be beneficial. Most DDoS attacks are not the multi-gig reflection attacks you read about and defending against those types of attacks is much more complicated. Regardless, I am not debating if ddos prevention has to be in depth or not. Im asking how efficient this is on a single server.