Originally Posted by Rick Ross

DDOS is hard to stop unless you have the equipment to handle it. Not all companies have the proper equipment or the capacity to fight it. When you have a DDOS attack that's when a real host is put to the test. In most cases it's hard to trace down the attacker since it's usually thousands of droids attacking from thousands of cable modems. But there are methods to combat such issues, that I am certain. DDOS do not happen for no reason, most of the time it happens after one party or a company has upset another.