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by aviau 2874 days ago
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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williamdclt 2874 days ago
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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rbanffy 2874 days ago
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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wild_preference 2874 days ago
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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