There are a lot of reasons including extortion, competitor attacks, espionage, revenge, proof of technical proficiency or simply because they can. In this case, if it is a DDoS attack, I would suspect a disgruntled user if there's been no attempt at extortion.
I know why people do it, as I said, I just don't understand why someone would fork out an expensive attack to do something like that in the first place.
Sadly, it only costs around $20 to take down most servers for about an hour. It's cheaper than you'd think.I know why people do it, as I said, I just don't understand why someone would fork out an expensive attack to do something like that in the first place.
Well yeah, I have a free software that I use to test load potentials for the server I get from a host, when the host is being vague about how much traffic can be on the site at one time. Doesn't take much to take down a site that is on subpar hosting, and which does not having DDoS mitigation plans in place. Yet, ProBoards does make significant enough money to have all the stuff needed to mitigate that stuff, and they were bought by a company that has the funds to do so.
I wouldn't say subpar per se. It's been around for a long time & many people use it. It has changed hands & will be going to the new version, V6. While I like the ease of use, I only stay because I would have to start over from scratch if I moved over.
My forum is loading good & I've been able to be on other PB forums just fine.
