[oliwarner]

Speaking as a customer, I've never actually seen any direct service downtime as a result of a DDOS. Specific services (usually their web manager) have gone down but that hasn't affected my clients' sites running on my servers.

Obvious scope for improvement —and I've no doubt this is a constant engineering sink— but not being able to commission new nodes through the web interface for a few hours hasn't yet ruined my day.