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I’m interested to hear how you 1) block 2 Tbps of attack traffic 2) save $500k per month in bandwidth charges since blocking at the border means you have to p
by iptrans 4y ago
I’m interested to hear how you
1) block 2 Tbps of attack traffic
2) save $500k per month in bandwidth charges since blocking at the border means you have to pay for the incoming bandwidth
- afiori 4y agoDDoS don't only cost bandwidth.
- admax88qqq 4y agoOP literally said 500k of bandwidth charges.
- b112 4y agoAnd the person you replied to said "only".
- themoonisachees 4y agoSupposedly the traffic being blocked would have generated more outgoing traffic, costing more. Also, GP is managing their connections at the bgp level, meaning the requests don't ever hit their firewall, they just are unroutable from these countries ips.
- iptrans 4y agoBGP doesn’t work that way. You cannot control who your prefix is announced to, unless you control all the paths on the Internet.
- realistik1 4y ago1. Not sure where you got 2tbps? I said 10gbps, but we use Alamai’s manages Prolexic ddos mitigation. At previous companies we would buy a half dozen of these, put them at different exchanges and buy transit from the biggest aggregators. This would cost about $4m to get started 2. I meant $50k per month, edited. This does not count loss of productivity.
- iptrans 4y agoSound like you are probably just overpaying for bandwidth and/or DDoS protection.