Application Scenarios Of Hong Kong’s High-defense Servers In Single Egress Routing And Multi-line Redundancy

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overview: what is the us-based high-defense server and its application scenarios?

• definition: a high-defense server that does not bypass the united states refers to a host or vps that is deployed in a hong kong node, has external routing that does not go through the u.s. bypass path, and has high-defense (ddos cleaning) capabilities.
• applicable scenarios: cross-border business (asia-pacific→america), game acceleration, api gateway, live broadcast relay and other scenarios that are sensitive to delay and stability.
• key requirements: low-latency direct connection, controllable bgp egress, high ddos cleaning threshold, and compatibility with cdn/back-to-origin.
• influencing factors: isp selection, egress policy, bgp announcement/policy, cleaning bandwidth and cleaning delay.
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advantages, disadvantages and applicable scenarios of single egress routing

• advantages: simple operation and maintenance, stable routing paths, fast troubleshooting, suitable for small sites and projects with limited budgets.
• disadvantages: the risk of a single point of failure is high, and the entire site may be unavailable when the link or isp is attacked.
• performance: under ideal conditions, rtt for local export from hk to mainland china is usually 10–30ms, and to the us west coast is 90–120ms.
• security: higher cleaning capabilities are required (at least 1:2 bandwidth redundancy is recommended), otherwise large traffic attacks will directly affect the business.
• adaptation: suitable for people with stable traffic, cost-sensitive and able to withstand short-term failover.

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design points of multi-line redundancy (bgp multi-line)

• principle: announce prefixes to multiple isps simultaneously through bgp to achieve policy-based traffic dispersion and failover.
• topology recommendations: at least two different backbone isps (such as isp-a local backbone, isp-b international direct connection), and set a reasonable med/localpref policy.
• health detection: combined with bfd, bgp monitoring and link detection to achieve handover in minutes or less.
• ddos strategy: cooperate with cloud cleaning or local cleaning at different exits, and set cleaning thresholds and return-to-source whitelists.
• cost and complexity: operation and maintenance costs increase, but availability can be increased from 99.5% to more than 99.99% (calculated according to sla).

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common protection and routing configurations of hong kong’s high-defense servers that do not bypass the united states

• protection level: physical port (10gbps), network layer cleaning (l3/l4), application layer waf (l7). recommended 10gb port + elastic cleaning on demand.
• routing configuration: configure bgp multi-neighbor, as path filtering, and community marking on the router to control outbound paths.
• cleaning capability: it is recommended that the basic bandwidth is ≥1gbps and the cleaning capability should be reserved 3–5 times according to the business peak value. for example, if the business peak value is 200mbps, ≥1gbps cleaning should be configured.
• integration with cdn: distribute static resources to cdn to reduce the pressure on the origin site. the cdn should support back-to-source verification and intelligent switching of the origin site.
• monitoring and alarming: traffic sampling (netflow/sflow), attack situation map, automated work order linkage with isp.

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specific configuration examples and data demonstrations

• example goal: deploy a high-defense vps in hong kong that does not bypass the united states, for users in the asia-pacific and americas, requiring high defense, low latency, and redundant exports.
• recommended hardware/virtual configuration: 4 vcpu / 8gb ram / 120gb nvme, public ip / bgp advertiseable prefix.
• bandwidth and protection: physical port 10gbps, default outgoing bandwidth 1gbps, cleaning threshold 10gbps (adjusted according to attack records).
• routing policy: equivalent to isp-a and isp-b, bgp localpref gives priority to isp-a covering asia-pacific, and isp-b serves as the international priority link.
• monitoring indicators: hk→cn average delay is 20ms, hk→us-west average delay is 100ms, and daily average traffic peak is 120mbps.

project	configuration/value
cpu/memory/disk	4 vcpu/8gb/120gb nvme
port/guaranteed bandwidth	10gbps port/1gbps guaranteed
ddos cleaning threshold	10gbps (elastic expansion)
typical delay	hk→cn 20ms / hk→us 100ms
bgp neighbor	isp-a, isp-b (multi-line)

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real case: the effect of switching the e-commerce platform from single line to multi-line

• background: an e-commerce platform (anonymous) uses hong kong's high-defense vps for api back-to-origin, and initially it is a single isp export.
• problem: in a large-scale attack, the peak speed reached 300gbps, and single-line cleaning was limited, resulting in multiple interfaces being unreachable within 30 minutes.
• plan: complete bgp multi-line access (isp-a, isp-b) within 30 hours, enable elastic cleaning 10gbps and cdn back-source traffic limiting policy.
• effect: the fault event recovery time is shortened from 30 minutes to <2 minutes, and the business availability rate is increased from 99.2% to 99.98%.
• data comparison: the peak traffic before the attack was 120mbps, and the peak traffic was 300gbps. after cleaning, the real return-to-origin traffic remained at 1xx mbps for 5 consecutive minutes.

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best practices and conclusions

• evaluate needs: decide on single or multiple lines based on business qps, user area and budget. high availability/high defense must use multi-line + bgp.
• combination strategy: cdn + multi-line bgp + local high-defense + waf to form defense in depth.
• daily operation and maintenance: regularly practice bgp switching, update routing policies, and monitor delays and black hole events.
• cost control: put static content on cdn, reserve necessary bandwidth and cleaning quota at the origin site, and elastically expand capacity on demand.
• summary: hong kong's high-defense servers are good at cost and simplicity in single egress scenarios. when there are higher requirements for availability and attack resistance, priority should be given to the combined deployment of multi-line redundancy and elastic cleaning.