Comment by zzzcpan

> I mention this because it's sometimes easy to dismiss until you're in the situation and the realities of what you have control over are vastly different from technically feasible.

I understand, but you are still talking about a situation where surviving a volumetric DDoS attack without a global centralized provider was possible. It wasn't smooth for you, but it could have been if things were done a bit differently.

Anyway, here on the other side of the world it's not like that, DDoS protection is more common. Because in the early days of DDoS attacks with all the dreadful blackholing one of the big European providers OVH invested in DDoS protection and kind of pushed the whole market to provide it too instead of blackholing.