> the attack doesn't end up adding to our bandwidth bill because of the way in which we're charged for wholesale bandwidth.
> We buy a lot of bandwidth and we pay for the higher of our ingress (in-bound) or egress (out-bound) averaged over a month. Since we act as a caching proxy, under normal circumstances egress always exceeds ingress. When there's an attack, the two lines get closer together but rarely is an attack large enough to add to our overall bandwidth costs.
Wow. That’s a devilishly clever way to avoid paying for DDoS attacks.
> We buy a lot of bandwidth and we pay for the higher of our ingress (in-bound) or egress (out-bound) averaged over a month. Since we act as a caching proxy, under normal circumstances egress always exceeds ingress. When there's an attack, the two lines get closer together but rarely is an attack large enough to add to our overall bandwidth costs.
Wow. That’s a devilishly clever way to avoid paying for DDoS attacks.