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Hetzner under large ddos attack

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We have several clusters in DC19 and have had stable uplinks for most of the year, but now and then DDOS happens. This also happened with our other servers on other providers too, like UK2 and OVH over the years. Unfortunately, DDOS is not easy to protect from and cost a lot to manage. I'd rather have these outages on rare situations than pay 200% more for the same performance. No client's have complained either, because they know we offer more for less.

But if you run HA nodes, cloud or premium services on cheap providers like Hetzner, UK2 or OVH (excluding their cloud offering that has DDOS protection) you only have yourself to blame.

We also have several clusters in DC19 and we have had similar experience to yours. However, it looks like DDOS attacks are becoming a real issue for us now.

Could you recommend a provider that in your opinion has a better DDOS protection than Hetzner? (We also use AWS but are not excited about it for a number of reasons).

How about you use AWS to send an initial 302 redirect to a cheap host and nothing else ? Any reason that won't work ?

Wait until OVH open again, they offer the cheapest professional DDOS protection in Europe right now.

I hate this - especially on a sunday afternoon when I don't want to think about work :( My phone keeps ringing because some of our servers appear to offline....

I wonder how many admins around the globe are currently annoyed by monitoring alerts :-(

yep. and i'm pretty annoyed that they do not update their status page more regularly while things seem to get worse by the minute.

Try the customer forum for more current, crowdsourced information: http://forum.hetzner.de

The company I work in has some servers in RZ19 and we have intermittent problem of similar kind all the time over the last month or two. Most of the time the servers just stop being reachable from the Internet or packet loss occurs when trying to reach them, at random times during the day for brief periods like 1 minute, and Hetzner explained it with DoS attempts on other servers in the same data center. Has anyone else had similar issues? Yesterday evening and today they have of course much bigger issues.

I have had bad experiences with Hetzner in past, there are many better providers out there I do not understand why people use them and their cheap desktop based servers and minimal support (even if hardware breaks and you can prove it they drag their legs)

a year ago, a disk in a raid-1 broke at 2am. they responded to the support ticket 1hr later and replaced the disk by 5am - this was on a standard dedicated server without any special support package, which i found pretty amazing.

I've had always had good experiences with Hetzner, a few times even speaking by phone to an English-speaking technician running around the data center.

Which providers would you consider better whilst providing similar value?

When a HDD died on a server I have there it was replaced in under 1 hour...

it seems large parts of their address space within the 144.76.0.0/24 netblock (and not just the mentioned 144.76.36.0/27) are currently shut down. ipv6 traffic is still fine.

Look like its UP now... able to access server on DC19 from India...

yes, 144.76.0.0/24 looks down for me too, unfortunately even the robot administration is unavailable

Try to use european proxy, they banned all US part, as can I see (inbound and outbound connections), but I connect to admin/ssh from Russia.

currently no ipv4-routing from central europe either. using ipv6 works tho.

I'm in Europe (Spain now). But it looks down from Czech Republic too.

go to link11 (www.link11.de) they host servers and have ddos protection, which works pretty well.

Black hole, again, now.

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