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This sort of headline involving Linode is (unfortunately) beginning to feel extremely frequent. I am happy that I've since moved away to GCP, but this is still
by hnarayanan 10y ago
This sort of headline involving Linode is (unfortunately) beginning to feel extremely frequent. I am happy that I've since moved away to GCP, but this is still sad to hear.
- charlieegan3 10y agoCertainly often seems to come up on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=linode.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=linode.com
- cstrat 10y agoI feel bad for them and their customers. Wonder what the root cause of all this is, they seem to be a specific target for some reason...
- boulos 10y agoHigh value (a decent number of high profile customers) and yet easier than say us (Google), AWS or Azure. As the last discussion brought up, I'm curious whether Linode is particularly singled out compared to say Digital Ocean, OVH, Hetzner, et al. but maybe someone like jgrahamc knows?
- Joe8Bit 10y agoEasier in the sense they have less scale/capacity/capability to mitigate the attacks?
- samhamilton 10y agoYes for sure, think about what Google etc had as teams before they all launched their cloud compute services, I would bet they all had abuse mitigation teams. In this case I would figure there is an overlap of the team and tooling that keeps google.com up and the one that keeps my VM being hosed by a DDoS
- asciihacker 10y ago> I am happy that I've since moved away to GCP What is "GCP"?
- jeffcore 10y agoI believe they're referring to Google Cloud Platform.