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| Apr 4, 2012 at 20:40 | comment | added | David Schwartz | Actually, at least in my experience, the vast majority of the cost has to do with avoiding the loss of revenues and discouraging DDoS attacks by ensuring you have sufficient capacity and staffing to resist them. (For example, you might pay for 25x the bandwidth and server capacity you need to handle your legitimate load just to prevent a DDoS attack from succeeding.) | |
| Apr 4, 2012 at 18:18 | history | answered | stefgosselin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |