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A comment on Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, ... by fibers on Sunday August 12, 2018 @10:34AM (#17744518)
But why gnu? They seem like a static site that can only be taken down by simple ddos?
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Re:Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, ... by DonHopkins on Sunday August 12, 2018 @11:17AM (#17744693)
The Emacs web server had to garbage collect.

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/HttpServer

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Re:Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, ... by stephengillie on Sunday August 12, 2018 @10:38AM (#17744532)
Everyone has to start somewhere - maybe some script kiddies are at their first Defcon and saw an easy target?
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Re:Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, ... by aviau on Sunday August 12, 2018 @10:58AM (#17744615)
Why 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/. It sits behind AWS CloudFront. Good luck taking it down.

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Re:Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, ... by williamdclt on Sunday August 12, 2018 @11:10AM (#17744660)
That's not what the parent said, they just said that the only thing that can take down GNU.org is DDoS
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Re:Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, ... by rbanffy on Sunday August 12, 2018 @11:26AM (#17744732)
It'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.
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Re:Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, ... by wild_preference on Sunday August 12, 2018 @11:09AM (#17744659)
It 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.

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