I've never had any of my sites DDoS'd, but I have been slashdotted before, so I really have no analogies or useful information about that.

Doesn't VirMach offer DDOS protection on shared hosting as well?

* Are DDoS attacks common enough that I would want protection?

DDoS protection

If you want to pay ~$200 if you get a ddos then sign up. They will lock your account when they need money and say that you have been ddosed. I have faced a nightmare before some years.

* DDoS Protection & Mitigation

The ddos protection is 20Gb/s, that's no relation to any uplink. Have you tried downloading with just the link itself directly rather than in the script? If so, I can check the URLs.

All VPS's come with 20Gbps DDoS Protection with an L7 filter to keep your server safe and online.

All plans come with 20Gbps TCP DDoS Protection with an L7 filter to keep your server safe and online.

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The longest outage we had was when migrations from IN > LDN were underway to retain client data after our upstream vendor cancelled our contract due to the constant DDoS attacks in the unprotec

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^^ Pretty much same except 10gbit pipe, 50gb ssd and 20g ddos mitigation

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2GB DDR4 RAM30GB of RAID10 pure SSD storage1 CPU @ 3.5GHz (Fair share)1 Dedicated IP address and /64 IPv61TB Bandwidth on 1Gbps port20Gbps of DDoS protectionLocated in Los Angeles, California