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Does DigitalOcean have an Anti DDOS protection??

I am really concerned about this. I don’t plan to use Cloudflare as it forces me to use their free SSL cert which I don’t like, I have my own certs which I bought especially for my wordpress website and I also plan to use an EV cert in one day which Cloudflare doesn’t support in their free plan. Also I have a premium DNS service, so cloudflare is really out of my border. I am wondering what should I do if I am getting a DDOS attack? I read many horror stories how droplets are disabled for 3 hours without letting access, and how they are unable to handle flood. I am wondering Does DigitalOcean have an Anti DDOS protection at least in their end? can it at least handle small DDOS attack? I saw some people have stated, DigitalOcean isn’t for production and only for developers. Is that even true? Thanks.


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Bobby Iliev
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November 1, 2023
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Hello there,

Quick update here. I’m excited to share that DigitalOcean has introduced a new feature in response to the valuable feedback we’ve received from users like you: DigitalOcean DDoS Protection:

https://www.digitalocean.com/products/ddos-protection

Here are some key points about this new offering:

  1. Cost: DigitalOcean DDoS Protection is available at no additional cost. That’s right, it’s a free service for all users!

  2. Coverage: The protection extends to a range of DigitalOcean resources including:

    • Droplets
    • Kubernetes
    • Managed Databases
    • Load Balancers
    • Reserved IPs
  3. Protection Layers: This service provides protection primarily at the Network (layer 3) and Transport (layer 4) layers of the OSI model. Please note that Application layer (layer 7) DDoS Protection is currently not supported.

  4. Latency Concerns: One of the standout features of this service is that mitigation takes place entirely within the DigitalOcean network. This means that data traffic doesn’t leave our network for mitigation, ensuring that your applications experience no additional latency.

  5. Overall Benefit: DigitalOcean DDoS Protection is an always-on service designed to defend your DigitalOcean cloud resources against a range of generalized, network-layer DDoS attacks. This ensures that your apps and websites run smoothly, without the threat of potential disruptions from such attacks.

Best,

Bobby

I’m a current customer. Digital Ocean’s response to DDOS attacks is unacceptable. They will take your network offline and disable network traffic without sending you ANY notifications whatsoever. Then you will have to file support tickets and tell them what is wrong, just to have to wait over an hour for them to say “Oh yeah, you were right, you were DDOS’d and we took you offline, sorry about that”. Total nonsense. I’m definitely NEVER using Digital Ocean again and cannot recommend them at all. Not only did I not receive a notification of network traffic disabled, this cost thousands of dollars in losses.

I solved this problem by installing vDDOS Proxy Protection software as a Reverse Proxy (simulating CloudFlare’s mechanism by combining many things like Nginx proxy + Testcookie + reCaptcha + Iptables + Cloudfalre API …)

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