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ColoCrossing DDoS protection experience?
Hi all,
I've been wanting to dig up a DDoS protected provider on the east-coast for quite a while, and I had experimented with ColoCrossing (friend lent me his HVH with protection) and it was honestly a poor experience. I'm not talking about the network quality but it seemed that when it had been attacked, it was offline.
Psychz (10Gbps) held up similar attacks so I doubt it would have been the size that mattered (the box had 30gbps I think)
This was quite a few months ago however, I want to know if anyone else has had better experience and is there somewhere I can pick up a cheap one so I can try it out again.
Cheers,
Spock
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Well, when LET was attacked they couldn't defend themselves with their own protection, that doesn't speak for a good protection.
Well, Psychz has opened their Ashburn location this past week or two so if you need something "fairly" east coast it would work well?
DDoS Protection is like a science. You can't just throw expensive HW up and thinking it will do it all by itself.
I was looking towards their Ashburn location, just depending if someone can get an above 20Gbps level there and that won't break too much of a bank.
I've got much much more faith in Psychz than I do in CC for sure.
Anyone know any providers that will be offering services out of Psychz Ashburn? So far I see photonvps.com for SSD KVM.
Have you talked to Jimmy or George @ Psychz any? Surely they could do something for a fair price, but I don't have anything in Ashburn so I wouldn't know. But hey, all of that new stuff cost money
Edit: You might check out DataWagon, by the looks of it they're in or near QuadIX (??) but claim to provide 80Gbps mitigation capacity for most types of attacks and their dedicated servers are pretty cheap.
PhotonVPS is one of the Psychz VPS brands. If you need something in Ashburn I might be able to do something soon.
Would definitely like to hear if this is the case, 10Gbps just doesn't cut it for the occasional attack I receive
Giving DataWagon a try, might be something worthwhile to add to the bundle.
@LordSpock
I bought myself a 20GBIT DDoS Protected hudsonvalley vps using the leb260off15 coupon - paying only $7.60/m total for this virtual machine.
hudsonvalleyhost probably is using ColoCrossing's RioRey DDoS Protection, so far no issues with it! it is rock-solid and i've had no weird network behavior while under attack. maybe your friend lent you the 10GBIT protected vps which is the lowest ddos protection they offer and comes standard with every vps, it might be oversold! 20gbit works for me.
PM'd you a IP of an 20GBIT protected hudsonvalleyhost vps, feel free to test it for a bit. let us know if it hold up!
Yes, we're live in Ashburn, VA now
That's like 15 min or so from my house will probably try out your Ashburn location soon
PM me the IP please... I want to test it (I need to compare with my Voxility protected server and my OVH)
For the east coast I would recommend Constant. You could pay $300 one-time fee for their 20gbit protection or a lower monthly fee. You may have to contact them for that deal..
Best server I've ever had to be honest, never any issues with the network either.
Gave @Mark_R's a little test and was very impressed. Shelled out a few bucks on a 50Gbps box and so far I am quite impressed.
I haven't put it through it's full paces yet but fingers crossed it stays good!
Sent.
Wow that's an amazing deal.
Glad you are having a good experience.
DDOS protection will never be perfect, but we feel pretty good about the service we offer in that realm.
It has definitely improved from the early stages, and there is always room for improvement
That was a layer 7 attack I believe, which is very hard to stop.
Could you run this test again but ping from your own PC while doing it? it looks like the ping testing from that booter isn't fully accurate, this would make sense if the pingtest is being done from the same server that is firing the attacks. I've tested the same exploitive (not raw udp) floods you fired at it before and there was no packetloss involved.
Use ping IP -t in command prompt.
Thanks!
Just because @Mark_R gave you an IP doesn't automatically give you permission from CC or their upstreams to stress test it. You should ask beforehand.
Just saying.
I see nothing wrong with testing your paid-for protection, its better to make sure its actually going to work before using it in production. I've tested Vultr's DDoS Protection that would cost me $10/m and it was totally useless! i wouldnt have known that if i didnt test it out myself. I aint going to pay for fake protection practices.
http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/67586/vultr-ddos-protection
Ontop of that, doesnt these ddos protection services benefit from those free stress tests in the end? i'd think they learn new attack patterns because of this and will make sure it gets fixed.
No need to DDoS a provider to test their protection. And even if it was done with permission, no need to share it on LET and motivate scriptkiddies. This isn't hackforums.
So Colocrossing only focuses on attacks that are easy to stop?
Luckily, all the providers who are not serious about their DDoS-protection, aren't even using their own DDoS-protection to protect their own page. You really don't have to attack them since it wouldn't paint a picture of what their own DDoS-protection is capable of.
You shouldn't have put your fingers in that light socket.
Someone is now testing OVH's DDoS protection it appears. Tricky to find out who it is though.
Doh!
Anyone who claims their DDOS protection is perfect isn't being honest. Our solution, which utilizes numerous technologies and platforms is good but not perfect.
Wish people would stop with the DDoS attacks on here =/
Haha, I've got it!
Thats the right spelling to say I understand it, right?