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Originally Posted by Malrubius
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Isn't there front-end hardware (or I suppose software) that will help block this stuff? In other words, there is the ability to block the stuff (i.e. repeated spam attacks, etc.) *before* it gets to the server, but without having to have the ISP/host/carriers do it - true?
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What president said is right.. I'm guessing its an issue with going over bandwidth, which usually ends up in costing big bucks. You have a certain commited rate and should you go over that, expect fees.
I actually work for the most expensive datacentre outsourcer in North America, so I'm not sure how the lower budget ones work, but we will not filter traffic on our side of the network.. Your traffic is your traffic. This is seen as good and bad, obviously it's good because you will never have issues with us filtering any legitimate traffic.. but then you have issues with DDoS.. Again though, if you get DDoS you use more bandwidth, which raises your 95th percentile, which means you will most likely be paying. Of course if someone if havign a real bad problem and it goes on for a few days we will intervene, offer assistance, or just offer to shut the port to save them some money.
Getting back to the point, if traffic is getting to your network, you can filter it all you want, but its still using bandwidth which you pay for, if it hits the server or fills the pipe, you of course get the lag we were getting.