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Atlanta is their smallest datacenter IIRC with their lowest bandwidth capacity.

I would still recommend them as we have had great luck with their Dallas DC. It seems to be the most resilient of them all in terms of random network outages and also DDOS attacks.

However the one in December did take them offline for a few hours but after which they apparently implemented more DDOS protection. Keep in mind this could happen to anyone (Digital Ocean, Vultr, etc) and mostly their mitigation techniques seem to be to kill your VM until the attack is over.

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>the one in December did take them offline for a few hours

That is a bit of an understatement. Our servers were down every couple of hours for a week, and the attack bounced around to pretty much all of their datacenters.

Sorry I should have clarified. Our servers were down for a total of 4-5 hours spread across a week or so. After the first incident it only took a few minutes for them to come online each time, although I hear others had varying downtimes while they mitigated that DDOS.

Thankfully it was over Christmas time so our clients were mostly offline.

How do you know atlanta is their smallest datacenter?

Is there a list somewhere that shows what the capacity of each of their datacenters is?

Atlanta got trashed the worst back in December but they beefed it up a lot. But how much? Is Dallas still bigger?

Im considering migrating everything to dallas.

I think it was a blog post that was talking about why Atlanta had so many capacity issues with the DDOS. I just tried to find it and now cant.

Dallas has been superb though, definitely go with that if you can.

How was the recent attack in Dallas? Labor day weekend Atlanta went down for about 25 minutes until they squashed it. Then I saw dallas came under attack. How did it handle the DDOS this time?

We had a few seconds of latency tacked onto our normal response time for about 40 mins but everything stayed up. Here is a graph from our monitoring tool (grafana with WorldPing) http://tomschlick-screenshots.s3.amazonaws.com/RKRIJQ9Q

Very interesting. Looks like Dallas can still handle a DDOS better. Got news that Atlanta is increasing their bandwidth 6X real soon. Its scheduled this month. They handled this DDOS pretty good. Although we actually had downtime. Adding 6X bandwidth should make a huge difference. Not sure which datacenter should be my primary though after the 6X upgrade. Oh wait, linode just responded to me. They are recommending atlanta for ddos over dallas after the 6x upgrade. Hmmmmm.

Good to know! We are looking into a secondary DC setup soon so we will have to look at Atlanta after their capacity bump.

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