On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:46:01 -0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What is the difference of not having access to the web > site because it was taken down OR under a DOS attack? > > Mark Jordan > > You need to see these things in a wider perspective: It's nothing to the viewer of the site, but a lot to the owner.
The owner of the site ends up with a large bill for the bandwidth used before the site crashes. Or, the dos attack uses up his allocated bandwidth and he has to buy extra to get the site back up. The dos attack might also affect the isp in general, which might jeopardize the victim's account. I'd have thought Stiffler could put up a simple notice as the index page, saying that the site was temporarily down. That would not chew up much bandwidth (I think), but you can't blame him for being extra careful.
