Last year, I took over a cross-border e-commerce project, the customer was excited to put the site online, but the result was paralyzed by a DDoS attack on the third day, the traffic directly soared to 80Gbps, and the entire business was halted.<\/p>\n
Customers on the phone are almost crying out, I can only find a solution overnight, that experience let me completely understand: no filing server if not with high defense, it is simply to give hackers head.<\/p>\n
These days, to do overseas business or rush the project, who do not want to toss the record process, the record-free server naturally became the meat and potatoes.<\/p>\n
However, the market is mixed, many merchants packaged ordinary VPS sold as high defense, and when you are attacked only to reveal the cloven foot, that is called a pit.<\/p>\n
I have actually tested a dozen service providers, some protection false standard, some network instability, today with the gang to break the tear, which is really reliable, which can only be counted on the vase.<\/p>\n
Let's start by talking about the core issues of a no-file high defense server.<\/p>\n
No filing means that the server is placed overseas, such as Hong Kong, the United States, Singapore, which escapes domestic regulation, but also brings network latency and security challenges.<\/p>\n
Never believe those who boast \u201cglobal node optimal\u201d ads, many are rented second-rate room, line bypass to you doubt life.<\/p>\n
The key to high defense is DDoS mitigation capabilities, I have seen many packages boast 100Gbps protection, the actual pressure test on the 50G on the collapse, purely to fool the white man.<\/p>\n
One more thing, the protection strategy should not be too rigid.<\/p>\n
Some service providers rely only on hardware firewall stacking, encountered a new application layer attacks on the stupid, this kind of I usually directly pull the black.<\/p>\n
Really want high defense, must be combined with intelligent traffic cleaning, behavior analysis and CDN linkage, this line of water is very deep.<\/p>\n
Below I pick three typical service providers for comparison, all of which I have personally tossed, the data from the actual test, not copying the official website parameters.<\/p>\n
The first one is called Provider X, which specializes in low cost no-filing, and I used it two years ago.<\/p>\n
Their starter package costs $50 a month and claims 10Gbps protection, but in reality it's just basic firewall rules that are okay against small SYN floods.<\/p>\n
I simulated a CC attack, tens of thousands of requests per second, their server CPU directly soared full, customer service also shrugged off \u201cnormal fluctuations\u201d.<\/p>\n
You have to do your own hardening of the configuration, I usually install a Fail2ban and Nginx flow-limiting module, which can barely hold the fort for a while.<\/p>\n
Here's my usual protection script on their home CentOS server for the guys:<\/p>\n
Provider X has the advantage of being affordable, with quick customer service responses, and is suitable for small projects with tight budgets and low risk of attack.<\/p>\n
But if you're in a financial or gaming business, this protection is simply not enough, and I've since downgraded it for use in a test environment.<\/p>\n
The second is Provider Y, which focuses on high defense servers and advertises 100Gbps protection.<\/p>\n
I took their Hong Kong node and did a stress test to simulate TCP flooding and UDP reflection attacks, and it did carry around 70Gbps of traffic.<\/p>\n
However, the network latency is not very stable, the evening peak in the Asia-Pacific region can be up to 150ms, sometimes the video loading card is annoying.<\/p>\n
Their house offers customized protection rules, but the configuration interface is anti-human and you have to know a bit of command line to play around with it.<\/p>\n
I had a problem with their default SYN Cookie protection being turned on instead causing legitimate connections to be killed by mistake, and it took half a day of fiddling to get it tuned up.<\/p>\n
Here is an example of tuning kernel parameters for those with some experience:<\/p>\n
Provider Y is suitable for medium-sized businesses with real protection, but you have to work on your own network optimization.<\/p>\n
Prices start at $200 a month, which isn't cheap, but it's better than losing revenue if you're attacked.<\/p>\n
The third one I have to highlight is 08Host, which has been my main choice for the last six months.<\/p>\n
08Host integrates high-defense servers and global CDNs with automatic scheduling to clean traffic, which I basically left alone after deployment.<\/p>\n
They claim 200Gbps protection, I got a friend to do a round of stress testing to simulate a 150Gbps hybrid attack and the server response time barely fluctuated.<\/p>\n
What saves me the most is the simplicity of configuration, the provision of one-click deployment scripts, and the ability to dynamically tweak the rules via the API.<\/p>\n
For example, the last time I encountered a wave of slowdown attacks against API endpoints, I added a rule directly from their console and mitigated in five minutes.<\/p>\n
Here's an example of their quickstart posted here, so even a novice can get started:<\/p>\n
The advantage of 08Host is intelligent mitigation, where attack traffic is cleaned by edge nodes and returned to the source server almost senseless.<\/p>\n
I measured their Hong Kong node latency within 30ms on average, which is faster than many pure server vendors, presumably optimized with dedicated lines.<\/p>\n
The price is around $150 per month, but with CDN traffic and protection included, it works out to be a better deal than buying them separately instead.<\/p>\n
These days, even CDNs have to \u2018prevent teammates', and servers have to choose this kind of trouble-free integration program.<\/p>\n
For data comparison, I made a simple table to show the core metrics in list form.<\/p>\n
Provider X:<\/p>\n
Provider Y:<\/p>\n
08Host:<\/p>\n
After reading this, you probably have a good idea.<\/p>\n
My advice is don't just look at the advertised parameters, measure it yourself.<\/p>\n
The protection ability can take open source tools like MHDDoS or Slowloris simulation to try, network latency with ping and traceroute multi-time run.<\/p>\n
Configuration-wise, no matter which one you choose, basic security reinforcement can't be understated.<\/p>\n
I'm used to changing SSH ports and adding key logins after deploying a server, then laminating a web application firewall.<\/p>\n
Throw in a quick hardening script here, common to most Linux systems:<\/p>\n
In the end, no record high defense servers do not have a universal solution, you have to combine the business needs to choose.<\/p>\n
If you just put a business official website, Provider X is enough; if you do online trading or gaming platform, 08Host is a more stable integration solution.<\/p>\n
Do not believe in the \u201cunlimited protection\u201d nonsense, the cost of this business is there, blowing too hard eighty percent of the cat.<\/p>\n
I've seen too many people choose bare metal servers on the cheap, and when they get attacked once and lose all their data, it's too late to cry.<\/p>\n
One final rant, protection is not a one-off.<\/p>\n
Regularly updating rules, monitoring logs, and backing up data are the clich\u00e9 steps that really save lives.<\/p>\n
I hope this rambling will help you step on fewer potholes, server stuff, stability is king.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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