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Originally Posted by ladida
Because it's most likely not. Everyone calls everything ddos nowadays.
If someone fires up a login bruteforcer - POOF IM BEING DDOS'D.
If someone fires a site crawler - POOF IM BEING DDOS'D.
etc etc etc.
If you get ddos'd, you most likely know who is behind it, why, and what he wants from you because he will warn you before ddosing you trying to extort something, get something, or put your site down for something. By "who" i mean their online persona. DDoSing takes real resources. REAL DDoSing takes REAL resources. You don't waste those, you get money/influence with it. You don't just go randomly wasting those resources on a run by site, or because a model didn't take her panties off in time for you to nut.
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Well this is from my coders mouth he says the people doing it from the logs he's seen have thousands of ips and act as real users targeting weak spots all at the same time which causes a negative effect on the server. The thing is if we fix the shitty coding it wouldn't actually effect us so that's what we are trying to do atm to give us time to decide what to do next, probably try the load balancing.
yes you are right it does cost a lot of money to ddos, for example buying ips pools of about 1000 would cost around $800+ a month. People don't just probably know as you say unless they told you themselves. It's usually just competitors and it may seem expensive to do but at the end of the day they profit from it.