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I feel bad for them and their customers.

Wonder what the root cause of all this is, they seem to be a specific target for some reason...

High value (a decent number of high profile customers) and yet easier than say us (Google), AWS or Azure. As the last discussion brought up, I'm curious whether Linode is particularly singled out compared to say Digital Ocean, OVH, Hetzner, et al. but maybe someone like jgrahamc knows?

Easier in the sense they have less scale/capacity/capability to mitigate the attacks?

Yes for sure, think about what Google etc had as teams before they all launched their cloud compute services, I would bet they all had abuse mitigation teams. In this case I would figure there is an overlap of the team and tooling that keeps google.com up and the one that keeps my VM being hosed by a DDoS

Certainly often seems to come up on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=linode.com

> I am happy that I've since moved away to GCP

What is "GCP"?

I believe they're referring to Google Cloud Platform.