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DDoS attack

Posted on October 17, 2012

How long do you nullroute on an incoming DDoS attack?

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chrissardius

February 4, 2013

So what is the cause of the attack of 4th February ? My droplet has been unreachable all day.

Moisey Uretsky

October 17, 2012

Every serious DDoS attack is very different and requires investigation to determine the origin of the attack, the type of attack and which services as well as which IPs are targeted, and also to asses the impact to the virtual server, the hypervisor, and the network at large. <br> <br>We can not disclose the specifics of how we go about mitigating DDoS attacks as that information can then be used to strengthen attacks, what I can reveal is that when an attack is large enough to cause issues all of our engineers are investigating the issue together and working to resolve it as quickly as possible.

me83141

January 22, 2013

If, for example, a backend server is DDoSed, is it allowed to shutdown the instance and create another identical one from a snapshot (which should get it another IP)?

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