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How much $$ does archive.org spend on infra and such? How much does one need to endure the most damaging DDOS? I remember seeing from somewhere that Google went
by markus_zhang 2y ago
How much $$ does archive.org spend on infra and such? How much does one need to endure the most damaging DDOS? I remember seeing from somewhere that Google went through some huge DDOS attack without going down.
Given its benefit to the lay persons I recommend everyone who use their services give a small amount once for a while. I already did so but if not for family issues I'd donate way more.
- mike_d 2y agoDDoS attacks are usually volumetric attack. Send more bits than the pipe the website has to the internet. To combat this you need to buy enough pipes to the internet for your regular internet traffic, as well as an extra 500 Gbps or so. That is a lot of unused bandwidth to be paying for every month. Then once the packets arrive at your datacenter you still need to buy dedicated appliances to scrub out the bad and let the good flow. Google is constantly under attack, but their normal daily traffic volume (multiple Tbps) is large enough that just the extra capacity they keep on hand to deal with traffic spikes the World Cup or a popular YouTube video is larger than what most attackers can muster.