DDOS ATTACKS how to limit their effect.

I think it clearly addresses how the effects of a ddos attack could be
greatly reduced. It requires clear, believable communication on the
part of site owners, and patience on the part of the membership.

Here it is:

Hitzpay is currently under what appears to be a crippling ddos attack.
This results in the site being inaccessible and further leads to panic
among the membership. In the panic there appears to be a run on
chargeback claims with their payment processor which causes further
problems for the site.

Not very long ago 12DailyPro was out of commission for a few days as
the result of a similar attack. They did however survive the attack
and seem to have put suitable security in place to avoid another such
attack.

The following are some thoughts and suggestions I present in light of
this problem.

1. Why are these sites so easily crippled by such an attack? Is their
security just faulty? Is proper security too expensive?

2. Are the scripts most sites run, simply full of holes? Hitzpay for
example apparently had their egold account hacked prior to the ddos
incident.

3. The real thing which causes panic is not the ddos attack, it is the
thought that the members funds are at risk. Why should that be the
case? A ddos attack denies access to the site, but in no way puts at
risk the members funds. UNLESS............the site owners are so
incompetent that their data is not backed up eight ways to Sunday.

These are just a couple of thoughts which come to mind and I would
suggest that if an autosurf owner is going to be taken seriously, they
should be able to demonstrate that they have sufficient backup in
place so as not to put members funds at risk.

If that were the case, panic would be non-exisitent and a ddos attack
would become futile.