The site is paralyzed again and the traffic curve is going straight down like a cliff. This is the third time this month. You are scrambling to contact the server room to “pull the black hole”, while cursing in the heart, calculating that you must be on a high defense.
Open the search engine, type “Hong Kong high defense servers”, the price from a few hundred to tens of thousands of a month have, the slogan a more than a bluff, “unlimited defense”, “T-level protection”, “never down” ...... see you dazzled, the heart straight drums: this water in the end how deep?
I've been in this line of work for more than ten years, their hands have managed to help friends debugging the Hong Kong high defense machine, at least hundreds of units.
Today do not say false, just talk to you out of your heart, Hong Kong high defense server prices in the end is determined by what, how to avoid those pits, to find a truly cost-effective and reliable program.
Remember.High defense this thing, a penny a penny goods is the iron law, but ten dollars, may only buy three points of goods, that seven points are all IQ tax.
The root cause of the price confusion is that the word “high defense” itself has become a mystery. A lot of white people first look is “how many G defense”.
I'm telling you, looking at that number alone, it's pure bullshit.
Merchant A marked 100G defense, selling you 2000; merchant B also marked 100G, dare to sell 8000.
Why? The type of defense is vastly different. One is for traffic-based attacks (such as DDoS) cloud cleaning, traffic through their cleaning center, filter out dirty data and then give you, this cost is relatively low.
The other is hard defense, the server room actually has anti-D equipment, this kind of cost is high, especially the hard defense that can resist complex mixed attacks (DDoS + CC).
A lot of low-priced packages, the so-called “high defense” is actually a soft defense firewall rules, or is a traffic monitoring, really a wave of big, directly to your black hole for 24 hours, customer service will only tell you that “is trying to clean”.
Bandwidth is another core cost and where the cat is out of the bag. Hong Kong is notorious for its expensive international bandwidth.
High-defense servers must be paired with a large enough bandwidth, or else the legitimate traffic won't be able to get in once the attack traffic comes in.
But here's the key: is it local or international bandwidth? Is it an optimized CN2/CMI line or a regular international line? The price difference can be several times. Some businesses give you a very cheap price, a look at the bandwidth of 30M, 50M, this you can basically pass, really hit when the bandwidth of even normal users access to squeeze into constipation. I found that the actual test, for serious business, Hong Kong high defense at least from 100M optimized bandwidth to start with, less than this number, advertised and then sky-high don't believe.
Besides, the “quality” of the server room. Hong Kong server room a lot, but really have their own strong cleaning center, and access to the resources of a number of top operators are not many. Many small agents and even “two-way dealers”, “three-way dealers”, from the hands of the big room to package some cabinets or servers for resale, the defense ability to rely entirely on the upstream. Once the upstream strategy is tightened or the cleaning center fails, your service will be finished.
The price includes the “status” of the server room. The top server room with its own cleaning center, the price is certainly more stable than renting someone else's ability to “shell” server room, of course, also more expensive. But this “expensive”, when the attack really comes, may be a life-saving money.
Don't believe in “unlimited defense”, these days, even drinking yogurt have to lick the lid, there is no real “unlimited”. This is either a sales gimmick, meaning that “we do not limit the default, but really hit too hard we will talk to you about heart (plus money) or directly pull the black”; or is a word game, unlimited defense, but limit the bandwidth, your bandwidth on the 100M, the defense of 1,000G has meaning? Attack traffic to the entrance blocked, and directly killed no difference.
Look at the configuration and be sure to look at it in conjunction with the bandwidth, type of defense, and cleaning strategy.
So how do you compare prices scientifically? I summarized a “three look, three questions” rule.
A look at the underlying architecture: is it cloud high defense (diversion cleaning) or independent hard defense? The former is flexible and the latter is more stable. Second, look at the line details: clearly written is CN2 GIA, or AS9929, or ordinary international line? Delay and stability is very far. Third, look at the cleaning report: dare to provide real-time attack traffic and cleaning report? Transparency is the basic sincerity of doing high defense.
A question about defense triggers: are they triggered manually or automatically? How long is the response time? The second question is about excess handling: if the attack exceeds the purchased defense value, is it a direct black hole, or is it flexible billing to continue cleaning? The third question after-sales support: is 7 × 24 technical presence, or only customer service conveyance? When something really goes wrong, an engineer who can directly knock orders in the engine room is more useful than a hundred online customer service.
I'll show you a real setup list from my early stomping days, compared to what I feel is reliable now:
See the difference? The first configuration, all the parameters are vague, the minimum, the key is “defense” is a black box. The second configuration, every detail can withstand scrutiny, the cost is there, the price naturally up. High-defense server money, mainly spent on “high-quality bandwidth” and “real defense capabilities” on the hardware itself, but not a large proportion.
In recent years, the market has also seen some new ways to play. For example, some service providers, like CDN07, who rely on their globally distributed cleaning centers and deep network resources in Hong Kong, are able to elastically combine high-defense IP and cloud resources.
Instead of renting an entire high defense server, users buy a high defense IP for their existing regular server, and the traffic goes through their cloud cleaning before going back to the source. The advantage of this is that you don't need to pay for high defense capability all year round, high defense resources are enabled only when attacks come, and usually it's the price of a normal server. This is a smart choice for those whose business fluctuates, or who want to minimize costs in the extreme.
Their pricing system is also relatively transparent, defense value, traffic cleaning costs are listed clearly, with how much counts, this model I think is a future trend.
Finally, I'll give you a few heartfelt suggestions. If your business is just starting out and your budget is limited, don't push hard on a standalone high defense server. You can consider the first Hong Kong optimized line of ordinary servers, with a reliable cloud high defense or high defense IP services, the most cost-effective. If the business has been stable, the latency and stability requirements are extremely high, then honestly find a good reputation, rent a stand-alone server with hard defense, bandwidth don't save, at least 100M optimized lines to start. Before signing the contract, be sure to let the other party to provide a real pressure test report, or at least detailed description of the physical location of the cleaning center and carrier access.
These days, even CDNs are ‘teammate-proof', and the essence of choosing a high-defense service is to choose an ally who can stand shoulder to shoulder with you at critical moments, not a businessman who only reads quotation sheets.
Don't get sidetracked by low-priced sales tactics. Encountered the kind of “defense” blown up to the gods, but the specific technical details do not know, or open and close mouth “we are the cheapest”, quickly run. The real industry veterans, talking about routing, cleaning algorithms, SLA guarantee, is the process after the excess. Hong Kong high defense server market mixed, but the real gold is not afraid of fire, your business stability, is the best litmus test.
Spend more time researching and find a partner with transparent pricing and reliable technology, it's much more cost effective than getting beat up and putting out fires at a later stage. Security, in the end, is never cheap.