Also, from the looks of it, seems CF fails to mitigate the DDoS, since its hitting the OVH VAC and it drops CF traffic.

Good to know but does OVH really mitigate high amount of L7 ddos? As far as I know there is no challenge based authentication like js challenge or button / captcha. As far as I could see OVH has inbui

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Whenever I get at least incoming 1000pps due to L7 (D)DoS attacks or let's say on high user traffic on my website, ovh will turn on ddos mitigation and I receive an email.

1Tbit Anti DDOS Protection

I mean even for compromised services, they use them later to spam or ddos.

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Thanks everyone, after a few weeks of looking around I ended up with ExtraVM at some of @MikeA 's OVH locations. Not quite the Path.net I was looking for but permanent OVH DDOS GAME mitigation on Ryze

Included DDoS Protection

DDoS-Protection

Their TOS clearly state no IRC (because of ddos risk) while @NDTN above expressed some leniency toward IRC usage as long it's not problematic (which is great news btw) so there's your answer.

We do allow bots, so Discord is fine. In most cases IRC should be fine too if it does not attract too many DDoS attacks.

However, I want a similar configuration with good uptime and DDoS protection. I checked my current bandwidth consumption is approx 5TB.

Ultimately it's the paying customers who tell the truth tho -> We have quite low tickets / customers, and very high retention rate for seedbox niche. Our worst months are as good or better than

100Gbps+ DDoS Protection

May be related to recent publication of ddos origins? 😀🤣

DDoS Protection:

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Its because DDoS mitigation kicked in. That's why you see reduced download speed (they inspect packets) and connetion drop. They have it configured to fit 99% of customers.

*DDos protection