technical issue DDoS protection?

[Buck Testa 5,505]

Is there anything regular members can do to help further protect the site from DDoS attacks? Maybe donations for better software or something else along those lines? 

[Drakkon 362]

There is no easy way to protect the site from DDoS attacks. We of course appreciate donations and we use them to improve our servers, but not only would we likely require to make our own forum software or otherwise use one that's built to withstand them (IPB is not), the mechanisms behind DDoS protection is not something we can purchase ourselves without an industrial allowance (it involves having many, many servers, and performing something known as load balancing between them, and even then it's sometimes not enough, with even Riot Games and Blizzard sites and services going down to DDoS attacks). There are, of course, DDoS protection services that can be purchased, but DDoS attacks are so few it would be a very significant waste of funds.

 

All it takes for a DDoS attack to be mitigated is the question of how quickly we are alerted to it and how quickly we react.

[Koukatsu 5,899]

This question has been answered, and the OP has requested neither information, nor clarification, in over a month. I'll be locking this.

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