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It's not hard to compare this to brush fires. They happen periodically, and only the big trees tend to survive them. Linode is getting pretty unlucky here, bu
by morecoffee 10y ago
It's not hard to compare this to brush fires. They happen periodically, and only the big trees tend to survive them. Linode is getting pretty unlucky here, but I would imagine that all the small time (and even the medium sized) hosting provides are going to succumb eventually. Is the end game just going to be Google vs. Amazon?
- wowaname 10y agoI'd love to see a network infrastructure and transport protocol that's more resistant to many (D)DoS attacks, because it seems like things will only worsen if it never becomes more difficult for people to attack others' servers online.
- apapli 10y agoGood luck. A DDoS is basically lots of traffic. Perhaps run IPX? (Joking)
- wowaname 10y agoIf application- and transmission-protocol-level DoS vectors are fixed, then you're left with just the raw "lots of traffic" volumetric attacks, which means your attacker has to have a lot of compromised hosts (or the right compromised hosts with lots of bandwidth). I'd say that's a reality that would be easier to handle, because you raised the bar from anyone who can develop or use a script and deploy to a few low-power systems, exploiting protocol shortcomings, to only those who have a bunch of higher-powered systems. The smaller hosting companies may still very well go out of the game if the problem worsens, even if most DoS venues do end up being mitigated. I don't know how I would respond to that as of this moment, but hopefully it doesn't have to come to that. It's already tough to find a decent hosting company in my experience.
- blfr 10y agoThere are other companies which manage to deal with DDoS attacks (OVH, CloudFlare) but you're right that none of them can be described as small.