Short and tall is that you're looking at a much bigger bill than you were probably thinking. We recently did a charity event, and in expectation of trouble our sponsors put the server behind a DDoS-proof firewall. Had we have rented it rather than been given it for a day we were told the server instance would have been in the thousands to rent. Wasn't made clear if that would be daily weekly or monthly though. Agro KritzKast On 7 Nov 2014 06:51, "IBIS Customer Service" <ibis.serv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The cicso guard routers work really well but are like a half a million > dollars or something crazy. > > On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 12:48 AM, Weasels Lair <wea...@weaselslair.com> > wrote: > >> Unfortunately if is truly a DDOS (distributed attack, rather than from a >> single source) just adding a firewall (any kind) is not really going to >> help. By the time the traffic hits any firewall local to your server its >> too late. It needs to be dealt with upstream. >> >> You need a hosting provider that is setup to detect and mitigate such >> attacks, and more importantly the knowledge, experience and WILLINGNESS to >> address such attacks - instead of just blocking your IP. Maybe some folks >> on the list can make some recommendations. >> >> My own experience with the more common hosting providers has been much >> like your own. But, I guess that's what I get for using the cheapest >> providers I can find. >> On Nov 6, 2014 9:35 PM, "Mike Vail" <supp...@boomgaming.net> wrote: >> >>> Hello Fellow Windows 2008 Game Server Owners, >>> >>> Today one of my TF2 servers on the dedicated server box I own and >>> colocate in California got DDOS attacked by a guy who announced the attack >>> via in-game chat and then attacked it. The attack got my IP auto-nulled by >>> my datacenter (AGAIN), which has happened at least a dozen times in the >>> past couple months. After almost 10 years of running servers and dealing >>> with this bullshit, I'm at the point where I'm ready to spend the bucks to >>> purchase a hardware device or some firewall software that says "Fuck you! - >>> Not happening this time dickhead" to these people and I really need your >>> advice on where to go and what to buy. There's a lot of admin and Windows >>> experience here on this list so I'm hoping some of some of you can help me >>> and we can have a dialog here that may help others as well. >>> >>> Your help would be GREATLY appreciated by me as well as others on this >>> list I'm sure. >>> >>> Warmest regards, >>> Mike Vail >>> Windsor, Ca. USA >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>> please visit: >>> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > >
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