DDoS attacks

We’ve had several DDoS attacks lately.  Luckily they haven’t taken our site down, but we do have very good DDoS protected hosting.  It’s more expensive, but as we can see, it’s well worth the cost.  Crazy as it sounds, we actually like getting them.  It shows us that we’ve upset someone enough for them to be willing to pay to try and shut us down.  For those unaware, a DDoS attack is when hundreds, thousands, or even millions of infected computers are all told to go to a specific site.  The result is that the host can’t cope with all the traffic and it shuts the site down.  The first time it ever happened to us was back in August of 2012, just a few months after we started.  These days, we probably get one a fortnight.  It’s going to take more than that to stop us reporting the scammers.