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Originally Posted by Malrubius
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Isn't there front-end hardware (or I suppose software) that will help block this stuff? In other words, there is the ability to block the stuff (i.e. repeated spam attacks, etc.) *before* it gets to the server, but without having to have the ISP/host/carriers do it - true?
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To an extent. It's all about how its set up and how much bandwidth he is being provided. They are moving the server next week to a better hosting company which should *hopefully* deter this, but if the server stays up but through DDoS uses MAD bandwidth the bill is going to be enormous. Even if you toss in a firewall or other hardware between the server and the uplink it still depends on the bandwidth between them. It might help, but even doing discards, blocks, reroutes, etc. still uses resources, and if the DDoS is large enough it will use up all the resources doing discards etc.
The server was already moved once to a place that had some sort of DDoS protection, but thats the problem with
DDoS, if its large enough, it's GOING to cause a problem.