Google Cloud vs OVH [DDOS protection]

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.

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.

As above. I'm looking for a cheaper alternative to google drive to store my files on cloud.

At the moment my google drive has 1.2 TB of files but I don't think I'm going to need more space anytime soon.

Also I don't need a lot of bandwidth, 100 Mbps is more than enough. Thank you

Hello people i am working to make a vps service.

I allready started with 4 Xeon E3-1230/40 Servers with 16 gb ram and 500 gb ssd 5 ip usables - i am paying now 30$ month for each server ( 120$ total )

i was looking for another provider with better protection anti ddos , better network , better location...

I look for a new provider with this config Dual Xeon E5-2430 - 64 GB RAM - 3 x500 GB SSD... 100$ month. 20 IPs

I have a very tight budget because I have very low prices....

I just don't want to degrade the performance of the service to my clients, I don't oversell on any server.

I am using vmware esxi and proxmox .... and all my vps are using windows server

any recomendation o provider is welcome.

Thanks

I love the company and I know there is no hosting company that cant block all types of attacks, always had my gameserver attacked been with OVH, NFO Servers, PhoenixNAP and many many others more, now I am with RSNET because I really like their location and network... but this time the attack is different. It doesn't seem volumetric seems like some kind SYN attack I am guessing due to the CPU being at 100%.
Their anti ddos filters or firewalls doesn't seem to even detect it.
https://imgur.com/SQadzid
Last ticket I sent them they told me to apply this rules ( I didn't because the attacks stopped but I just applied those rules, honestly I dont know if they will help a lot because on my experience reading IPTABLES or any kind of software firewall doesnt seem to do much on DDoS attacks)
https://support.reliablesite.net/kb/...rotection.aspx

This is how my netdata graph looks like
https://imgur.com/rpUHtl6

Any advice ?

I even nullrouted the IP that I think might be getting attacked but didn't do nothing ( super super strange )

Both associated. You can just google w3space and see the hundreds of other posts about this website.

Take money and then just stall delivering your server. Ordered 01/01/2020 still no sign of server. Been onto live chat 3 times and just get told "within a few hours". Not really fussed about the money but just not what you would expect.

I'm from Europe and looking at most offers in the north America, they all seem to have pretty limiting bandwidth or outrageous costs compared to European providers.

For the price of a Hetzner Ryzen 5 3600 box, best I could find with higher bandwidth limits (>100TB) was so long ago that I forgot from whom the offer even was, but I remember it was an i3... an i3 in a server for the same cost as the Ryzen 5 in EU.
I'm aware how different the marker and costs are compared to these two regions, but there must be some providers that offer more bandwidth for the price, right?

Is anyone able to point me to something that I can trust to be reliable meanwhile now blowing my wallet out into space.
At this point I'm looking for anything with appropriate specs (Ryzen 5 or newer Xeons), ~64GB RAM, >100TB transfer, 512-1TB SSD, optionally maybe an option for more IPs for not a lot of money? (>2$ per IP is too much for me)
My max budget would be ~50$-65$, that's what I'm aiming for.

Thanks in advance!

This isn't serious. I bought a new server with a new IP, we not sent never emails yet.

When my client try to send email to Gmail, Yahoo and other companies receive him without problems. But Hotmail/Outlook block the IP and return this message:

Code:

"host hotmail-com.olc.protection.outlook.com [x.x.x.x]
SMTP error from remote mail server after pipelined MAIL FROM:email@email.com SIZE=1797:
550 5.7.1 Unfortunately, messages from [x.x.x.x] weren't sent. Please contact your Internet service provider since part of their network is on our block list (S3140). You can also refer your provider to http://mail.live.com/mail/troubleshooting.aspx#errors. [.eop-EUR01.prod.protection.outlook.com]"

WTF!!!, this is frustrating. How can happens this if we never used this server and have a new IP. I did test with many blacklist tools and the IP is clean.

Hotmail/Outlook need disapear, they are blocking IPs for nothing.

Hello,

What do you consider appropriate maximum CPU load for PHP-FPM server with hyperthreading on and off?

With hyperthreading off, I consider the load linear, and consider about up to 70% safe, with a 30% safety margin.
With hyperthreading on, I noticed with experience and on prior google searches that the load % does not go up linearly and increases more rapidly at high values, so I consider up to 50% safe, since at above 50% the percentage increases more rapidly than under 50%.

But, I ask this because I may be to conservative as I noticed many Cloud autoscaling guides use 60~70% as a scale out threshold, and Cloud servers usually have hyperthreading on.
Personally I had always considered 60~70% dangerous.

Hi, Guys we have a small Cloud Server @ alibaba cloud. We just found out SMTP is blocked for cloud serves. Is there anybody who can provide us a working solution? Apart from email accounts we have few web sites that use formmail too.
any help advice appreciated/

Thank you.