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Unrelated to the story at hand. Have you been recently DDoSed on OVH? I know that (at least some time ago) they just null-route/deactivate your account on spot with no notification on anything that looks like a DDoS.

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This may be true. However, they are FAR more inclined to work with a customer before just flipping a switch like a lot of (for example) American hosting companies will. I have nothing but good things to say about OVH. They were helpful during a DDoS I had about a year ago throughout the incident, but I'm sure they would have nullrouted me had I not been so responsive to their support guys when things started going badly. "I'm sure" here is pure anecdote and based on zero evidence, but it's the feeling I got.

No I haven't been DDoSed at OVH (as far as I know), and I don't think they null-route customers any more. Here is some info about their system:

http://www.ovh.com/ca/en/a1171.protection-anti-ddos-service-...

I moved from iweb because they null-routed my server during a DDoS attack that happened for no apparent reason. (My guess is that it was a user upset at some user-generated content, so they decided to DDoS my server rather than notifying me).

Been running a game server on OVH that has been repeatedly DDOS'd by random people. It may take a moment or two to kick in and cause some wonky connectivity around the times of the attacks, but their service has been able to take some attacks in the several GBps range without a problem while we have used them.

They are using Arbor in their core network, and auto mitigate attacks on customers now. I am working with Arbor systems as well as others for DDoS protections where I am working now, and I can confirm that it works quite well.

Takes about 5 mins to kick in once an attack has started, which is very good.

Yes, and the service has remained available to most users. It's just the initial flood knocked stuff out for about 2 minutes as the worker threads dropped their request queues.

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