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It's hosted on AWS, you don't need DDoS protection, just a big wallet.
by AdamGibbins 6y ago
It's hosted on AWS, you don't need DDoS protection, just a big wallet.
- saagarjha 6y agoHacker News is self-hosted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22767439 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22767439. Let me see if I can find a better link where the specs are discussed.
- dijit 6y agoThats not even slightly true. Their IP belongs to AS21581; which is registered with a company called 'M5 Computer hosting' out of west-coast USA. m5hosting.com The last hop is Santa Barbera. Definitely does not fall in the AWS ranges.
- gruez 6y agoOnly if you use their "infinitely scaling" services. eg. s3. If the attacker is hammering you with expensive queries and your database is on 1 ec2 server, you're still going to go down.
- ivalm 6y agoThe nameserver is aws but IP4 points to “m5 computer security”