Post: #7

honestly sphere was made for windows, so its always going to run better on windows, ill also add that anything over 6gb of ram for sphere is complete overkill (unless you have 400+ players at any given time, even then not sure much more than 8gb is really needed)

but the DDoS issue, cant be solved by simply changing hosts, i run other game servers which suffer from an abundant amount of DDoS'ers, the only REAL solution is $500USD + for a host that will filter the bad traffic accurately without blocking the good connections.

as a work around however, if u can get multiple IPs from ur host, and set it up so that you have several servers in ur list that all connect to the same machine, the person DDoS'ing you will attack one, maybe 2 IP's, let them get hit and be null routed, his program is most likely an IRC auto run kinda thing, that he pays for by the hour, he will hit one IP and let it ride thinking hes hitting u hard, meanwhile the players will still be able to connect from the others in the servers list, the IP he is hitting will be null routed for up to 3 hours, which means he will be hitting a disabled IP and just wasting his money, after a few times of that he will stop wasting his time and money on you.

fight annoying with more annoying