Beitrag von @paul@oldfriends.live * hhmx.de

Denial-of-service attack
It's when a website gets a lot of request at the same time which the server can't respond to and you end up getting 404 messages usually or some other error. It can happen unintentionally like if a site gets a lot of request at one time organically but most often people will target a website and with simple computer commands send a lot of traffic on purpose to cause a site to crash and remain crash so legitimate users can't access

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Paul Chambers🚧
@paul@oldfriends.live

Föderation EN Fr 09.08.2024 13:08:12

@CoachMark @stux

2/An organic DDOS example would be, at midnight Taylor Swift tickets go on sale online. Then at midnight all the Taylor Swift fans go to the website to buy tickets. It crashes because the server can't handle all those people visiting to try to buy tickets all at once.

Malicious example would be someone mad at a website and sends a lot of fake traffic to a website so the website can't handle it so legitimate users can't access it.

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CoachMark not French Canadian
@CoachMark@beige.party

Föderation EN Fr 09.08.2024 13:13:08

@paul @stux That's a wonderful answer that I can grasp - thank you Paul. Have a great day. Much appreciated. And well done to @stux for getting things sorted.

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Paul Chambers🚧
@paul@oldfriends.live

Föderation EN Fr 09.08.2024 13:14:06

@CoachMark @stux

You are welcome coach. Have a good day too

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CoachMark not French Canadian
@CoachMark@beige.party

Föderation EN Fr 09.08.2024 13:14:29

@paul Thanks! Always appreciate your content.

@stux

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