I&#x27;d posit that 98% of providers from whom you can acquire budget VPS will do the same thing. The practice is not unique to Linode; why should a network you&#x27;re paying $20-$100 do everything they can to keep a target online and threaten other customers?<p>Contrary to popular opinion, if you&#x27;re getting DoS attacked, you&#x27;re either (a) popular enough to start thinking about adult-size pants for your transit strategy or (b) inviting the attention by your choice of content or activities. In years of hosting, I started to know the targets of DoS attacks by name. You have to own at least a little bit of responsibility, and mitigate on your own end if you&#x27;re going to be inviting that kind of attention; IRC and controversial blogs are the usual suspects here, but that&#x27;s probably changed recently as I&#x27;ve been out of the hosting game for a while.<p>Linode has few options for reacting other than the one they use. I know that sucks, but it&#x27;s how it is.