[chanalku91]

My first experience lasted for an entire week and literally killed my little raspberry, I was hosting a little public service using a dedicated network. It was very massive and various, it was not a simple type. That time I was not aware of the exposing IP problem, so it likely scared me a lot. After that I read a lot of article regarding attacks and mitigations, but never had the chance to try them during an on-going attack.

My latest experience lasted for an entire month! I tried so much to handle and contain the attack but it has been all useless. Nothing I could do from my end helped to stop them.
Regarding your points, I have some questions:

1. Regarding this, an user can't do nothing, the bandwith is fixed and it depends on the "contract" you signed with your provider, maybe you can ask for an increase of bandwith but nothing more;
   
2. I tried shutting down the VPS, but the traffic still reached the provider's network and caused problems, well the VPS was uncovered by any protection and they detected an abnormal traffic;
   
3. This is the only thing that I experience working so far;
   

1. Look for a provider that provides very large bandwidth, contacting them to increase bandwidth will only waste money!
2. Use a DDOS attack detection system that will notify you if something goes wrong on your network, and immediately contact the service provider to notify the provider that you are being attacked by a distributed Denial of service, they will immediately take action on their network!
If your VPS doesn't turn on, Attacks can still reach the Service Provider Router!