Just remembered this statement from Admin.
China seems to be different in lots of ways. A lot of service providers will take down your server for a certain period of time if it recieved an attack, including what I’m using right now.
Basically Internet connectivity in China is so expensive that attacks will cost everyone a massive amount of money regardless of whether you decide to pay for the bandwidth or get protection, and plugging out is unironically the most effective solution.
The funny thing is that Internet is cheap for domestic use. It’s only expensive for enterprise level connections so that includes servers.