/biz/ - Business & Finance

[Anonymous No.10886766]

>run a small exchange
>get threats by hackers all the time
>"sirr we found exploit site sirr, pay bitcoins or site coin stoeln all, you have til mumbai 5pm"
>ddos from time to time
>weathered 1.5+ years so far
>my personal email somehow got leaked
>receiving 10,000+ spam emails per day which created such a backlog I cant use my email for 2FA as emails cannot come through
never knew this was even a thing, email 2fa just doesnt work in this type of scenario. cant wait to sell the site one day, need a long break from this industry.

[Anonymous No.10886792]

>>10886766
whats your server architecture?
im writing software for an exchange rn. gunna launch it in a week or two
was thinking of

server ------|
server ----- Load Balancer
server ------|

Is that enough or do you need more servers and maybe one more load balancer? just wondering how bad the ddos's are

[Anonymous No.10886801]

>>10886792
also, how are you serving the orders to the frontend? is mongodb + a smaller mongodb collection acting as a cache good enough, or does it get too slow? idk if i should bother learning redis for the cache

[Anonymous No.10886806]

open your email in offline client (while online duh)t, disconnect, sort through for hours

[Anonymous No.10886821]

how do you handle the wallet private keys, some sort of HSM?

[Anonymous No.10886830]

>>10886792
large scale ddos will kill your edge router

[Anonymous No.10886842]

Do you have greylisting enabled? That cuts out 99% of the spam for me.