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Originally I was defending him because his non-technical background entitles him to make mistakes in a field he is not familiar with. Now I'm defending him because he was repeating something about the Heartbleed bug from the person who discovered the Heartbleed bug so the people attacking...

I know that BuyVM and RamNode offer filtered IPs, but we do not (our VPS nodes are colocated inside the data center). Just wanted to point that out since it's a common misconception about our service since we used to do it that way over a year ago. :) As for DDOS protection for a "non-business"...

I understand that CEOs are supposed to be experts about everything but sometimes they aren't. I know, it sucks to hear. I'm surprised his Harvard Business School degree didn't teach him basic networking protocols. [/sarcasm]

What is it with open source software companies getting into financial problems from non-software related issues?

If you have an online company, then operating a website without DDOS protection is a gamble. IMO, it's worth spending a few extra dollars as an insurance policy. Like other forms of insurance, you hope to never have to use it, but it's worth having if you do.

We just keep extending the nullroute until they switch to one of our DDOS Protected VPSs, it doesn't make sense that other clients on the node/network should suffer from attacks directed at one client and any amount of downtime caused by a single client is unacceptable. One time a client told...

The most VPSs you can create with 3 IPs (4 minus 1 for the host node) is 3 VPS without using NAT and sharing IPs.