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Old 04-07-2010, 11:55 AM
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well traffic can be quite costly ... since they charge by the GB usualy ... since its a 100 mbit line (like the netgraph says, 11.1MB/s), or rather a gigabit line capped at 100mbit, thats quite some traffic you can generate ... its already 666MB per minute ... now im not up to date with the current traffic prices (since i only have traffic flat rates for my online servers), im just assuming it would be somewhere between $2 and $5 ...

so now lets take the $5 per GB, that means it would cost $3,33 per MINUTE the ddos attack goes on ... so if last nights attack would have been above the prepaid traffic limit, yesterday's ddos hour already cost $199,80 ...

i dont think donations would be enought to pay $200 per hour ... or $4795,20 per day or $143.856,00 per month ...

yeah of course most hosts have a "maximum" amount they charge for traffic, if you are above such a limit it usualy doesnt cost you anymore .. but even that limit is usualy in the $10.000 range ...
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