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0 pointsprvit3y ago0 comments

DDoS-Guard and VanwaTech are both tiny companies and represent less than 1% of the market. There are hundreds of providers that offer decent DDoS protection.

DDoS-Guard and VanwaTech are just specialist providers that offer hosting to websites that very few companies would willing to work with.

It's not an oligopoly either.

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heartbeats3y ago· 1 in thread

What exactly are you trying to convey here? Who else is big within the DDoS protection market? It's not like you could start up your own.

prvitOP3y ago

>What exactly are you trying to convey here?

Cloudflare being a monopoly, or DDoS protection market being an oligopoly is absolute bullshit.

>It's not like you could start up your own.

You can. Vanwatech you just mentioned was run by a little kid who was bundling testcookie-as-a-service with filtering services from a bunch of other small providers like BuyVM.

You can get something like this started for much less than $1k/mo.

>Who else is big within the DDoS protection market?

Just off the top of my head: OVH, Voxility, Level3, Akamai, Neustar, Path.net, Stackpath, Hyperfilter, Javapipe, Sharktech, Blazingfast...

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