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Originally Posted by Sew_Sumi That's retarded... "We'll host a service, that even though we say we DDoS protect you, we can't really"

What the host did is put up a null route on his VPSs, which means nothing can reach it, effectively mitigating the DDOS on their end while keeping your stuff out.

This is the one of the cheapest ways for a datacenter/host to handle a DDOS; the better unobtrusive options are extremely expensive as they require specific hardware like Abor Peakflow which can run tens of thousands of dollars. Typically, quality server hosts lease dedis from a dedi host and they pay extra to be provided better DDOS mitigation solutions.

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Originally Posted by factionkiller I highly suggest CSF Firewall if you're running any linux distribution and blocking every port except those for SA-MP and other services that you run. It will automatically ban any IP that fails to maintain a connection or repeatedly connects.

fail2ban also works nicely for this.