| Additional notes (too late to edit the comment above): After a call with one of my hosting providers (yes, on a Sunday at that, how is that for service), they saw the 40Gbit barrier broken somewhere at the end of 2007, today they're prepared for a multiple of that but he says that because they are that well prepared they've become less of a target. They've invested a very large sum of money in infrastructural components specifically to deal with DDOS attacks at the hardware level, and though he doesn't rule out the possibility that they'll be one day facing one they can't deal with he doesn't seem overly worried, he does not want to claim any upper limit. The countries they've seen the most trouble from are hard to pin down, but apparently the former USSR states and China are pretty high on hist list for the 'bot masters'. Extortion seems to have arrived on the internet to stay, if you're a small player and you become successful you'd better be prepared, sooner or later you'll be a target. Even smaller websites can easily get 2 to 10 Gbps ddos attacks aimed at them, the first time this happened to me I was pretty happy that all that happened was that I received an email from my ISP informing me of the fact without any loss of service. |