[fibers]

But why gnu? They seem like a static site that can only be taken down by simple ddos?

[DonHopkins]

The Emacs web server had to garbage collect.

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

[stephengillie]

Everyone has to start somewhere - maybe some script kiddies are at their first Defcon and saw an easy target?

[aviau]

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.

[williamdclt]

That's not what the parent said, they just said that the only thing that can take down GNU.org is DDoS

[rbanffy]

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.

[wild_preference]

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.