For the better part of five years now there has been a serious epidemic of price gouging in the DDoS protection industry. If you’re a business person you might ask, “Why not?”, those needing to save their business from attackers may be willing to pay just about anything and unfortunately this has proven to be true when you look at the numerous businesses still using and recommending our competition.

There are many DDoS protection outfits in town today but we want to focus on a couple of our most prominent and capable competitors:

Prolexic

Perhaps one of the better known providers in the industry Prolexic’s pricing has long been somewhat of a secret. A quick scan of their DNS servers reveals that much of their business is casino, e-currency, and other high revenue sites. Perhaps a great solution for a company that may have “Unlimited Free Money” (trademark pending) but this does not work for the average Joe.

Verdict: You’re not getting through the door with Prolexic for less than $6500.00 per month with a $8500.00 setup.

Source: Looks like one of their customers left a price proposal laying around:  http://paradigmascension.org/PRO-intro_bro3-July2007.pdf (if this link ends up breaking ask us for a copy by contacting admin@blacklotus.net )

Gigenet

There was a time when Gigenet used to provide very affordable services but those times are over. In recent years they’ve begun charging thousands of dollars for protection that you could easily perform yourself on a dedicated server with a 100 Mbps FE and a little bit of elbow grease.  Infact, their $1299.00 per month product will only afford you 20 Mbps of protection. We’re still not even sure what kind of DDoS attack they think they’re going to protect against at 20 Mbps or why their customers do not realize the extreme level of proverbial highway robbery that’s taking place here.

Verdict: 1 Gbps of protection will cost you a whopping $10,999.00 per month. Last year Derek Raines at Gigenet also gave us a quote for a very similar $10,000.00 per month for the same product when we were shopping for alternate solutions for one of our customers. You’ll see in the WebHostingTalk thread listed below that their management is now trying to backpeddle and say that the prices vary. Okay, but not by much from the looks of it.

Source: They’ve begun advertising this pricing right on their web site at http://www.gigenet.com/hosting-solutions/ddos-protection.html . Guess they grew tired of responding to customers thought they might be able to attain decent pricing.  Here is a member of their staff confirming that the prices are “generalized:” http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showpost.php?p=5549638&postcount=16

Black Lotus DDoS Protection

With our product you’re not going to run into price gouging. We’ve always been “First and Leading” in high value, low cost services. In fact, in January 2009 we revamped our price structure to include a baseline 1 Gbps of protection with our entire BLCC Elite product line.

Verdict: Our Elite services will only set you back a few hundred to get in the door while our Mitigation Critical service level, the highest in the industry, starts at a very cool $2500.00 per month with a fully refundable setup fee! A voluntary contract can bring this down another 25% while other providers may require one!

Source: Check out http://www.blacklotus.net/protection . Contact us at sales@blacklotus.net and let us show you the cost savings!