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DDoS protection packages are generally sold with Mbps, PPS, and often TCP-SYN / UDP session limits. -- Jeffrey Lyon, Leadership Team [email protected] | http://www.blacklotus.net Black Lotus Communications of The IRC Company, Inc. Look for us at HostingCon 2009 in Washington, DC on August 10th - 12th at Booth #401. > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:57 PM, Tuc at T-B-O-H <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a client who prior to me settled into a non-carrier-neutral >> facility. They were approached this week for "DoS/DDoS protection" which >> they could buy in X Mb/s, 2xX Mb/s or 4xX Mb/s scrubbing solutions. >> >> Maybe I've been out of the running my larger Managed Server >> Hosting Company too long, but wasn't the "non-elegant" solutions >> something ISPs just "did"? Was it only DoS, and when it comes to >> DDoS they tell you its just too much to handle. And blocking how many >> netblocks does an ISP consider "too many" before it tells the client >> there is only so much it can do for them? Do people tell/give clients >> their own solutions? (Like Zebra boxes that'll inject BGP into their >> site) >> >> They wanted me to come up with 3 reasons FOR the service, >> 3 against, and what I felt was a fair market value for this. I just need >> to know if people still did that type of stuff for each other or if >> everything costs nowadays.... >> >> Thanks, Tuc/TBOH >> >> > -- Jeffrey Lyon, Leadership Team [email protected] | http://www.blacklotus.net Black Lotus Communications of The IRC Company, Inc. Look for us at HostingCon 2009 in Washington, DC on August 10th - 12th at Booth #401.
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