Most hosting companies have routers in place that deal specifcally with detected attacks.
The routers quite litterally siphon off the attacking traffic and send it into space.
So essentially you end up slowing down the website for a short time and then eventually your attack is thwarted.
With distributed webhosting, this is even further deluted.
DDoSing is not as big and bad as it once was... maybe thats a good thing.. maybe its abad thing.
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