New on LowEndTalk? Please Register and read our Community Rules.
All new Registrations are manually reviewed and approved, so a short delay after registration may occur before your account becomes active.
All new Registrations are manually reviewed and approved, so a short delay after registration may occur before your account becomes active.
100TB GVH? You mean 1.66TB
This discussion has been closed.
Comments
21914.55 times vs 43829.1 times, I don't think that difference is 'minute'.
that justifies it. now i agree with you
@shovenose
Did you ask the provider of the speedtest file if you could?
Whom / what is the link to the file?
Mun
Anyone having grandfathered Digital Ocean account? It comes with unmetered bandwidth, so it should not having an effect to DO and GVH, right?
who cares about a link to the speedtest file, WE WANT TO SEE this complaint that was supposedly sent to CC for alleged ddos.
im beginning to think @shovenose has a solid case here.
jbibloh, chime in.
as far as i know, its not real unmetered.
The company hosting the speedtest file has a 10 cent piece as the second piece of their name. That should be more than enough to identify them.
O__o
VPSDime
.
Hostdime??
VPSDime...? How do they have an ugly website? It's quite appealing to me at least.
@shovenose
no need to be cryptic about it.
help us help you.
HostDime
There is a huge logical fallacy here, and I suspect someone is being a liar. Why?
Lets say I am the host that was having the file downloaded over and over again from, now why the heck would I not simply place an iptables rule on the server blocking his ip, or even in a worst case scenario on the router to block him from downloading if I really cared about the usage? Heck, he was only connecting once ever minute, its not like he was sending 2000pps or even from multiple ips. My guess is ColoCrossing saw the large amount of continuous bandwidth usage and alerted GVH to have it cease as it was using a bunch of bandwidth over a short period. I have no doubt that they may have called it a DDOS in their report to GVH, however, I HIGHLY HIGHLY doubt there was an abuse report put in from the download location. it just doesn't make any logical sense. If they did, then the admin where the speedtest file is located is pretty freaking stupid, seriously and I hope you would provide us a excerpt from it to prove it really happened.
TL; DR:
I would bet dollars to donuts that there was no outside abuse report ever made and that this was simply ColoCrossing's monitoring system noticing the continuous use of large volumes of bandwidth from a single ip address over a extended period of time.
So @GreenValueHost shut up already. You keep bringing this lameness onto your self, seriously. I also highly doubt you will ever let anyone get anywhere close to 100TB and you are the stupid one to even propose that offer.
P.S. I am not condoning what @shovenose did by any means, its a completely stupid waste of money, time and resources. However, @GreenValueHost is just as moronic for making the offer to begin with and promoting this type of behavior.
(And I am not calling him a moron I am stating his actions were moronic and it is the correct use of the term @mpkossen)
my 2 cents.
Cheers!
I Think GVH told that they actually received complaint from the host of that file, because you are NOT abusing GVH's resource which they've committed to you. Rather you were abusing the host from where you were downloading the file.
Anyway, I am in GVH's side this time. As you sow, so shall you reap.
i dont find this offensive. i'll let @Spirit and @mpkossen decide
Ugh, let this go guys thus is not important nor what this thread is about.
@TheLinuxBug although it's not the most likely, I don't think it's unreasonable that the host would have an automatic monitoring system in place so that if a user continuously runs the speed test and looks like a bot then they block the user AND also automatically email abuse based on IP address.
@perennate okay, I will stipulate to that IF he show us the abuse report. You can redact the pertinent information as needed as long as it shows the ip address and their request to have it stopped. I believe he already stated it was HostDime above so that part can likely be left in. I just really don't think this "abuse report" exists.
Cheers!
I was reading through GVH TOS and I saw:
Did Kim Jong-un order a 100tb plan too?
Stupid jokes aside, I didn't find anything. Although in their "Pro Customer" email they said:
So unless he started this thing before Jan 8th, he's in the clear on cron jobs.
That screenshot of shovenose proves nothing. Wget a 2kb file every minute and what a 100mb file every minute is a lot of difference.
GVH didn't say otherwise if he didn't specify a size.
I think we now need to wait for a confirmation that HostDime actually send an abuse mail. If they did GVH is in the right, if they didn't shovenose is.
However i'd like to say that i find @GreenValueHost's attitude in this thread towards CC disturbing. As a provider he has the full responsibility for his operation. He is responsible for his clients towards CC and he is responsible for CC towards his clients.
Things like:
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
make it seem like GVH is a small child that is not ready to take responsibility.
What a thread, interesting read. I'm not part of the abuse inbox so I don't have a copy of the complaint to offer but here's what I'll add:
A 1 gbit spike inbound wouldn't have been enough for us to take action or show up on our monitors. We have tens of thousands of gigabit switch ports, so 1gbit inbound spikes happen literally every second.
We have a number of abuse templates. Had our NOC thought the traffic was an inbound DDOS attack they would have used a different template (not the one that was posted here from the ticket we opened). The template that was used is selected when we are notified of a problem by a 3rd party.
Either way, from my comfortable bed at home, that's what I can offer.
Oh and for the record, ColoCrossing makes money when customers use lots of bandwidth, so the suggestion that we demanded a customer not offer 100 tb plans makes just about zero sense. Perhaps GVH received some advice from his supplier, HVH, I don't know. If he did, then good, because no one should be selling 100 tb for $5 unless they want to eat rice and live on the street.
Either that or they think they can make a profit on such service. That's the ultimate reason for every offer seen.
LOL? Grow up, Michael :-)
Why can't we all just play nice?
Whoa, it worked!
Alright, we got your point now. If you have an issue with GVH, use their ticket system!
I know. It's fine :-)
Should we close the thread?
Why can't we all just play nice?
No we are still waiting for the most important piece of information: