This is mostly scaremongering, not all hosting providers take your site down just because someone you pissed off decided to DDoS you. In Russia (I have nothing

This is mostly scaremongering, not all hosting providers take your site down just because someone you pissed off decided to DDoS you. In Russia (I have nothing against Russia - I just know this info about “Дождь ТВ”), some news websites have been targeted by state-baked DDoS attacks, but I highly doubt most people are in this category.