They happen a lot more than you might think, but they don't cripple the whole network. There's one going on right now, actually, targeting a subset of guards. It doesn't bring the relays down complete

DDoS attacks on TOR don't happen every day, in a normal period, I think 50,000 TCP connections are enough (the cheap tariff still only has 100Mbps bandwidth, a lot of users won't fit there).

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So 50k connections total and 250 new connections per second? It might only be referring to new outbound ports though? Not sure, I'll ask them. Either way, that's not enough as low-bandwidth DDoS attac

4) External scanners will always show that all ports on the server are open, even if you have blocked everything in iptables/nftables. I believe this is due to the DDoS protection of the hoster, such

The problem with doing that for Tor is the potential of allowing an attacker to influence whether or not a legitimate connection is blocked. If an attacker with an /80 in the same /64 as a legitimate

What was the cause of the move? I know there was a large-scale DDoS shortly before. Did they kick you out because a customer kept attracting DDoS attacks against their infra or something?

DDoS Protection

DDOS Protection: https://www.interserver.net/security/ddos-protection.html

i am definitely not going to abuse this for ddos protection

DDoS Protection included

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We are not as low as $3 but have budget VPS that include Arbor ddos protection, going as low as $3 is a loss for us

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want ddos protection but cheap... and then blame non ddos protection provider for nulling (Image)

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Its a good way to test your anti ddos.