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Re: PSA: Add a Full Node for just $19/year!
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forevernoob
on 21/05/2014, 19:13:20 UTC
I used weloveservers' vps node and put a bitcoind on it.  The vps has went down a couple of times, weloveservers support mentioned that it is getting ddos'ed.  Did anyone experience similar issue?
I doubt people would ddos a bitcoin node, seeing there are tons of them, and there's little to gain from ddosing a single node. what probably happened was that your VPS provider was overselling its servers, and are using ddos as an excuse.

i sometimes get >100 connections at a time on one of these servers.  could that many simultaneous connections look like a ddos itself to an admin?

I highly doubt 100 connections would count as a DDOS. Isn't a VPS main function to host a service that people actually can use.