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LaurentGhon Scaleway – NVMe SSD Servers and Hot Snapshot

More details are needed, it looks like a good story.

LaurentGhon Introducing Scaleway NextGen NVMe SSD Cloud Servers Starting at €1.99/mo

Still half the price of the smallest Digital Ocean droplet. But Do just sent me a $100 voucher...

LaurentGhon Building a data center in a nuclear fallout shelter

It's down or super slow :(

LaurentGhon President Obama Finally Ditches Blackberry but New Smartphone Limited

"it doesn’t take pictures, you can’t text, the phone doesn’t work, you can’t play your music on it" I can't really see what this can be...

LaurentGhon My first DDoS attack for a $200 ransom

Thank you for this investigation! I've learned how to use dig! I've just remove the wrong AAAA record, as there is no IPv6 for Github Pages.

LaurentGhon Cal – Display a Calendar in Your Terminal

No GoT joke on khal Github!

LaurentGhon My first DDoS attack for a $200 ransom

No it's ok! Thank you ;-)

LaurentGhon My first DDoS attack for a $200 ransom

Nope, OVH is just for our domain name. Also is talking about my blog, not https://www.villa-bali.com website, which is on AWS.

LaurentGhon My first DDoS attack for a $200 ransom

Haha, true! But please share your personal DDoS experience is mine is not large enough :p

LaurentGhon My first DDoS attack for a $200 ransom

Yep, true, it's planned. But sometimes their captcha page tend to block some legitimate trafic...

It's not that impressive because we read everyday articles about crazy DDoS big companies are able to mitigate. But when it's the website your responsible for, whatever the number of requests/sec, you just need to find way to manage it, and CloudFlare can have some weird side effects.

LaurentGhon My first DDoS attack for a $200 ransom

But can you do pregenerated sites all the time? Like in my case I have a search page, and some dynamic things, I should generate a huge amount of pages (but while writing this I'm thinking that it could be feasible though a bit complicated to regenerate in numerous situations)

LaurentGhon My first DDoS attack for a $200 ransom

Exactly our situation :)

LaurentGhon My first DDoS attack for a $200 ransom

I think you're absolutely right for iptables, as I didn't changed anything to use the X-Forwarded-For IP, so this part might have been fully useless. About the EC2, it's because it's managing the SSL for us, and we used to have two servers behind it.

Everything could have been planed way better (cached, written with a fancy language...), we could have had 10 mil requests/µsec... the main idea was just to get tell how we tried to manage the situation, with the website and skill we have.

I also think my testimony is nearer to what most of web dev can be confronted to, in contrary to one Cloudflare/Gihub BS press release written by 10 experts to increase valuation :p

LaurentGhon My first DDoS attack for a $200 ransom

And there are 73 persons on it right now if I believe Google Analytics

LaurentGhon My first DDoS attack for a $200 ransom

It's working well for me. And as it's a GitHub website, it should be ok...

LaurentGhon List of April Fools' Day Announcements

http://blog.sunrise.am/post/115135988899/introducing-clippy-...

Sunrise joining Microsoft, they just added Clippy to their calendar

LaurentGhon French civil code now on GitHub

Generated PDF are not really web 2.0 :/

LaurentGhon Poll: What is your primary editor?

This is the worst poll presentation ever seen. F*ck yeah Silicon Valley \o/

LaurentGhon So, leboncoin.fr doesn't like my email alert webapp

I would love to work on an alternative too. It will be hard to attract people, but with strong features, would be possible. (But Craiglist is still #1 in the US, even if it's uglier than leboncoin...)

LaurentGhon Your best passive income? (2014)

I'll try to start an ecommerce for France, following the other ones who specialize themselves in just one kind of well made product, like socks (www.archiduchesse.com), or underpants (www.leslipfrancais.fr). Coming soon ;)