if one was in an AT&T data center (level 1), you could buy DDoS protection service from them. it works as advertised, it withstood anon attacks on a few places. but it costs 3-4 K /month.
Ouch, that's a lot of money. Doesn't Deepbit take 3% off the top for Proportional though, and even more for PPS. So even at 3%, that's 1.5 BTC per block. At an average of 30 minutes per block for a given 24hr period, that's 48 blocks solved by Deepbit, and 72 BTC goes to the pool every day. Even at $4/BTC that's $288 per day, or $8928 per month. But then again Deepbit pays for invalids, and there's probably some other incidentals that I'm overlooking. Damn, even at $4/BTC Tycho is still raking it in
