AlexWei

Peer better

Contabo AS-None, upstream via Cogent/HE mix. No anycast. Single PoP in Bucharest.

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HOST: contabo.com Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
1. 10.0.0.1 0.0% 60 0.3 0....

Peer better. Contabo AS-51167, single upstream, no IX presence. MTR to their anycast:

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HOST: localhost Loss%...

AS-REFERENCE: CloudCone peers via Cogent and HE in Los Angeles, no direct IX presence.

MTR from my HostHatch box to their gateway:

HOST: vela-test Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
1.|-- 198.51.100.1 0.0% 10 0.4 0.5 0.3 0.9 0.2
2.|-- 203.0...

Singapore power is S$0.32/kWh, roughly US$0.24. 180W here costs S$42/mo just in electricity. Plus apartments are small and AC is mandatory year-round. Nobody runs servers at home unless they're insane or very rich.

I use Vultr object storage for cold archive: S$6/TB/mo. Hot data is on a local Synol...

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HOST: coax_loss Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
1.|-- 192.168.1.1 0.0% 10 0.5 0.6 0.4 1.2 0.2
2.|-- 10.32.14.1 0.0% 10 1.2 1.5 1.1 3.4 0.6
3.|-- as64512.edge.ix 0.0% 10 2.1 2.3 1.9...

MTR from my monitor to HostHatch relay test:

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Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
1. 192.168.1.1 0.0% 10 0.5 0.6 0.4 1.2 0.2
2. core-ams.as64512.net 0.0% 10 1.2 1.4 1.1 2....

Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
1. 192.168.1.1 0.0% 60 0.5 0.6 0.3 2.1 0.3
2. 10.32.14.1 0.0% 60 1.2 1.4...

Confirmed. Hetzner's page says "automatic DDoS mitigation" but the fine print is "common attack patterns" and they reserve nullroute for volumetric. Same game, different logo.

BunnyCDN is pull-only. For DDoS you need the origin hidden, which means reverse proxy or DNS-only. Their edge is fast but the architecture is wrong for this.

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HOST: oracle-tier1 Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
1.|-- 192.0.2.1 0.0% 10 0.4 0.5 0.3 0.8 0.1
2.|-- 203.0.113.45 (AS31898) 0.0% 10 12.1 14.3 11.9 28.4 4.9
3.|-- Vultr-edge 0.0% 10 34.2 35.1 33.8 41.2...