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But why gnu? They seem like a static site that can only be taken down by simple ddos?
by fibers 8y ago
But why gnu? They seem like a static site that can only be taken down by simple ddos?
- stephengillie 8y agoEveryone has to start somewhere - maybe some script kiddies are at their first Defcon and saw an easy target?
- aviau 8y agoWhy does the fact that the site is static make it easier to take down by a simple ddos? I have a static website at https://alexandreviau.net/ https://alexandreviau.net/. It sits behind AWS CloudFront. Good luck taking it down.
- wild_preference 8y agoIt will DDoS your wallet with CloudFront charges which is even worse. They just need to hit you over a longer time scale and avoid making obvious peaks so that you can’t ask for the DDoS refund.
- williamdclt 8y agoThat's not what the parent said, they just said that the only thing that can take down GNU.org is DDoS
- rbanffy 8y agoIt's not simpler - quite the contrary. Dynamic sites can be taken down by a number of different attacks. Static sites are a much harder target.
- DonHopkins 8y agoThe Emacs web server had to garbage collect. https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/HttpServer https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/HttpServer