DDoS

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DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) is when thousands of computers flood your server with so much fake traffic that it can't handle real users. Imagine a million people calling a pizza place at the same time — the line's jammed and real customers can't get through. The goal isn't to hack you, just to take you down.

Real Talk

A DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack overwhelms a target's infrastructure with traffic from many sources (a botnet), consuming resources until the service becomes unavailable. Mitigation involves traffic scrubbing, rate limiting, CDN distribution, and anycast routing. Volume can reach terabits per second.

When You'll Hear This

"The site went down under a 100Gbps DDoS attack." / "Cloudflare's DDoS protection handled the attack automatically."

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