Because when a hosting company scales up its network to withstand an attack, many other companies do the same. And the attackers open accounts at several companies to launch the attacks.
If you can distribute all your services including DNS, across several providers, then you can probably withstand the attack yourself.
Whatever you do, the attackers will learn and evolve. So the best you can do is to get the pain down to a level that you can withstand. Only when everybody does this, will the attacks stop, or more likely, move to another venue.
You'll probably find that they're targeting one of Linodes customers rather than the actual Hosting company.
As for the reason, it's normally trying to get money out of them, or just to take a website offline for a while (e.g. the DDoS is from a competitor).
Most attacks will continue until you can prove that your no longer affected by them and can clean out the dirty traffic, this is quite expensive to do though.
It's possible they are attacking the hosting company BECAUSE of a customer they are hosting. We get these all the time -- they attack the customer and then when they can't take it offline they get angry and attack/threaten the hosting company's infrastructure.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 33.0 ms ] threadBecause when a hosting company scales up its network to withstand an attack, many other companies do the same. And the attackers open accounts at several companies to launch the attacks.
If you can distribute all your services including DNS, across several providers, then you can probably withstand the attack yourself.
Whatever you do, the attackers will learn and evolve. So the best you can do is to get the pain down to a level that you can withstand. Only when everybody does this, will the attacks stop, or more likely, move to another venue.
As for the reason, it's normally trying to get money out of them, or just to take a website offline for a while (e.g. the DDoS is from a competitor).
Most attacks will continue until you can prove that your no longer affected by them and can clean out the dirty traffic, this is quite expensive to do though.
Exactly!