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It comes down to politics, if I'm hosting a weird porn website, I'm sure my host would drop me. But since I have a run of the mill SaaS website or a landing page for a business hosted. I'm sure my host would see no point in dropping my service, if I get DDosed, my neighbours got ddosed as well similarly I'm sure. Maybe they charge me extra or rate limit the connection, idk.

In fact, I expect my host to kick weird porn websites from their servers so that I don't have any bad neighbours, we're running legitimate businesses here sir.

Maybe they'd push me into upgrading my server, as a sort of way of charging me for the increased resources, which is fine. If I'm coasting on a 7$ VPS and my host tanks a DDoS like a hero, sure, let's set up a 50-100$ dedicated server man.

In business loyalty pays and it goes both ways.

I have more than 1 hosting provider though, so I can reroute if needed, and even choose not to reroute to avoid infecting other services, isolating the ddosed asset.



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