Originally Posted by timlover

Well I meant more for home based computing and not servers....but...some rather common sense advice would be to have an over provisioning of your bandwith so it can handle the initial burst on it....that will give your server techs the ability to get on it and start scrubbing without it being overwhelmed at 100% when they get to it.

Another thing you can do is actually pick up the phone and call your host and ask them exactly what kind of plan they have in place for DDOS attacks. What the average time is on past attacks it took them to resolve. Expected downtimes from a generalized attack.. That way you don't have to completely panic the first time it happens. Find out exactly what the query load is for your stuff.

Sorry I don't have more detailed answers. I'm not a network admin or tech. Thats a whole other area of the cookie...