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[BOB]

Do you think I didn't go over this already? Were we either a really rich gaming community or a large company, sure we could setup a massive infrastructure and handle DDOS ourselves. We don't. 70$ per month is already more than enough for this community and I don't plan to ask our donating members to donate even more.

Yes what happened is a shame. It's a shame it took this long but that's not the worst point out of all.
Also, you should be permabanned for mentioning IIS. BAD.

Mmm, good points Alley. I guess I hadn't considered everything.
We would need our own servers and this would cost a fair amount of money, especially if we wanted reliable new hardware.

You're probably looking at around 1000GBP/1500USD to set up the whole network in addition to a good connection, DDOS scrubbing fees when we're attacked and somewhere to keep the servers which, as Jammi says, presents it's own problems. Ultimately what we have works and we've just been outstandingly unfortunate recently.
We wouldn't need to set up our own DDOS prevention methods though, just forward our traffic onto a 'scrubber' on the occasions that we do get attacked. These guys https://www.blacklotus.net/ are well respected in the industry and have several physical locations.

IIS isn't that ba... No wait, it kind of is... let the banhammer fly

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