Reliablesite.net DDoS attack.

Hello Buddies, any one can tell me best way to protect a server from DDOS Attacks ? Any Software or Firewall or Configuration from my side I can do to protect my dedicated server from DDOS Attacks ?

Background
We run a game server hosting company which has been running since 2012. We currently rent roughly 200 dedicated servers from 6 different providers. We currently rent roughly 60 of these dedicated servers from WebNX. We've been with them for just over 7 years and I can safely say that they've been the best datacentre we've used. I know how important reviews are to a company; I feel that we've used WebNX long enough to write an honest review.

Support
We've had our fair share of rubbish support from datacentres in the past. WebNX definitely provides the best support out of all the datacentres we've used. During the past 7 years, I'd say the average response time for a ticket at WebNX was about 10 minutes. We've found the biggest issue with large datacentres is that their support teams are disjointed. This leads to issues which "don't fit the norm" taking a long time to resolve. WebNX is large enough to provide 24/7 365 day support yet small enough to provide genuinely good "straight to the point" support.

Reliability / Uptime
All the datacentres we've used have had some sort of major outage at some point in time. During the 7 years, there have been a couple of network outages at WebNX but the issues have always been resolved quickly along with good communication. Considering the number of servers we have with them, I'd say the uptime is incredibly high.

Hardware
During the past 7 years we've switched our server hardware roughly 4 or 5 times. It's as simple as contacting them letting them know what hardware you like, they provide a reasonably priced quote and in a couple of days, the server is delivered. I'd say on average, broken hardware is resolved in roughly an hour from us opening the ticket.

DDoS Protection
I'd say this is the downside of WebNX. They'll automatically nullroute the IP address if a DDoS attack is detected. The amount of time the IP address is nullrouted depends on how much traffic the attack is sending. It's not really a huge issue for us as we can quickly work out which one of our clients was targeted and then get migrate them over to a DDoS protected IP address. I'm hoping at some stage they'll provide onsite DDoS protection.

Price
They're very reasonably priced considering the support and customisation which they offer.

Network
WebNX's network is top notch. Nothing to complain about at all.

Keep up the great work WebNX! Would be great if you could get another datacentre setup in East Coast USA.

We have been with HyperFilter for about 10 months now.
We host a game which makes use of both TCP/UDP and heard good reviews about HyperFilter and their protection, which is why we decided to go and get a server at them.

They are fairly priced compared to their competitors such as KoDDoS, DDoS-Guard, Voxility, etc.

The moment we moved to them, we haven't had any problems until a few days ago when we were receiving a continues UDP DDoS flood which took down the (game) server.
After discussing with the host, they provided a solution that has been working excellent so far. If you know what your traffic looks like, they can adjust the firewall rules in order to lower the impact on your server, which is not something that many other hosts provide. Their support is top-notch and extremely fast as well.

Overall, I rate HyperFilter a 9/10. I would definitely recommend HyperFilter to anyone who is hosting a game and has DDoS problems.

I have been looking for a new provider for some time now and Google Cloud crossed my path and I actually enjoy it a lot. Very easy to customize and choose to your preference.

I wonder about the protection though, I fiddled around with the Firewall which seems great but compared to OVH, how is the DDoS protection? Would it cost me money if an attacker launched an attack on me to consume bandwidth which leads to network costs for me? or how does it work? Would I feel any downtime for some seconds or is it like OVH where I don't feel any at all?

Secondly, which Google Cloud VM can compare to i7-7700k 32GB SSD?

Yours
FloodMachine

Hello,

We have to renew our server at Zare within the next two months and out of curiosity I was considering moving to a new provider, however, I'm unsure if there is any that can provide us with a better deal. The biggest DDoS attack we have received peaked at approximately 16 Mpps.

We have tried in the past:
- OVH
- Psychz

We had a considerably bad experience with Psychz so unfortunately, I can't even consider them, OVH works but the lack of support is a bit concerning (Note, I'm not asking for top tier support, just the relief of knowing that if there is a major outage, I know I will receive help ASAP).

We have the following:
E5-2650V3
128GB DDR4 ECC)
Drive Configuration (2 x 480GB SSD)
Port Speed (1Gbps) Transfer (50TB) £0.00
IP Allocation (15 x IP Address)

We pay on average $180 a month, which is honestly pretty good and I have no problems with Zare other than the storage being quite expensive. Do any of you have any alternative or suggestions?

Thank you.

Hi All,

Any good suggestion on east coast, USA host? I normally hosting gaming server and have been with constant.com (vultr is their sister company) but their constant incompetence in blocking 1Gbps DDoS is bother some. We don't get DDoS often, may be random once every few months because of script kiddies. Same bug exist at gameservers.com or their sister companies because they block all UDP packets rather then blocking bad ones and allowing good ones.

I have noticed my colleagues using OVH and have good feedback from them. How's the Virginia location of OVH? Also any another good host which anyone can recommend? Not a server hopper. Been with constant.com since 2011, I think but every year, I have to chase them to fix the issues and their delay of 2 years in fixing DDoS issue is bother some.. I believe it's about time, I make a decision.

Thanks

Is anyone aware of any company that has a presence in South Africa which is able to offer dedicated servers with DDOS mitigation (Thats not Host Africa)
I've taken a look over many websites over there but don't seem to be able to find any

I heard of Tempest hosting from several Discord servers, and give it a try.

Bought an M610 dedicated server in Amsterdam, running X5677, 32GB RAM, 900GB storage, 10gbps dedicated unmetered port. yes, you're not reading it wrong.

Onboarding process, it was smooth sailing. Registered, paid, and their IPMI system will automatically install the OS I chose. They also provide "Firewall Manager", where we can add filters on what ports/ips/protocols should be allowed/rejected to our server IP. They also provide DDoS filters, such as OpenVPN/VSE/TCP/TS3.

Compared to other providers, specs/hardware wise, there are far better options (ryzen/epyc/E5), but considering the price, no other providers can offer what they offer. 10gbit unmetered dedicated port for only US$150/mo!?

They do offer Ryzen servers, but I think it's a pre-order system and takes 2-6 weeks.

Network wise, the downside is that they're not on any exchanges/IXs (AMS-IX, DE-CIX, NL-IX, LINX, etc). They only use tier-1 upstreams (GTT & NTT), so sometimes routing outside of Europe (specifically Asia Pacific) is a bit weird.

In terms of support, they offer two options, either via WHMCS or their Discord server. All of the people who I talk to are friendly and knowledgeable.

Overall, for $150/mo, 10gbps unmetered port, it's fantastic. I hope that more & better specs will be available in the near future.

Anybody else have a server hosted in the ReliableSite NYC Metro datacenter and experiencing upstream bandwidth issues (upstream from your server, meaning clients downloading from your server)? In the past 2-3 days I've only been able to get ~3MB/s upstream (downstream is unaffected, I can still saturate the Gbps connection).

So then I tried ReliableSite's own speedtest links for each of their own data centers, posted he https://www.reliablesite.net/network/

http://nycmetro-speedtest.reliablesi...000mb.test.zip
http://miami-speedtest.reliablesite.net/1000mb.test.zip
http://los-angeles-speedtest.reliabl...000mb.test.zip

And I get the same bandwidth differences:

NYC Metro: ~3.5 MB/s
Miami: ~116 MB/s
Los Angeles: ~40 MB/s

These speeds are while running wget from the URLs above to a VM in Azure US East 2.

Can anyone else confirm that they see slow speeds with NYC Metro?

Anybody else have servers at WebNX that noticed really slow network throughput from their Utah DC to East Coast NA? So far this has been happening with us for a few days now and support has always said there was no issue with their network, there was just a DDoS and they rerouted traffic. But seems for me its not.

I tested from multiple VPS I have from locations like NY (colocrossing), Canada (OVH), FL (DediPath), SG (Leaseweb), and a multitude of others, all with varying result but bottom line was its unstable. For example, trying to download their network test file (https://mirrors-ogd.webnx.com/test/1gb.bin), it would all yield something really low from 100KB/s to 2MB/s. Occasionally I would hit 20MB/s at my SG server, but only for some time. Tested it with my LA server (colocrossing), this one is good, about 30MB/s.

Tried to do a lot of iPerf3 tests as well, with just similar result with conclusion that its extremely slow.

Just want to know if I am the only one experiencing it.