The original poster didn't mention what kind of DDOS was attacking the website. Ping flood? Sync flood?etc, etc. how much traffic are we talking about? how large is your connection?
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Jean Jordaan <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi there > > > Will moving to VPS hosting be sufficient, or is a dedicated server > required? > > If it was that simple, DoS would not exist. > > There's no real effective countermeasure unless your hosting provider > is involved. They need to monitor where attacks are coming from in > realtime and drop traffic from there at the earliest possible point in > their network. The problem is that a DDoS will use a botnet, so > attacks may be coming from thousands of home user IPs, and blanket > bans of IP blocks will be overkill. Even so this may be necessary > while the DDoS lasts. > > They also need to be aware that you're facing a DDoS, otherwise you > could face a massive bill for bandwidth overage. > > -- > jean . .. .... //\\\oo///\\ > > _______________________________________________ > LUGS Mailing list - [email protected] > List FAQ: http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq > Info page: http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet > To unsubscribe send an empty email to: [email protected] > -- There's no place like ~
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