Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
In the view of everything else going on, this is minor. Can't be 100% certain but this looks like some foreign group (or individual with a lot of different systems under his control) is trying to slam the site. Might even be some dumb hacking attempt rather than a DDoS, which just looks like a DDoS because of the heavy traffic from tons of different IPs. I'm still analyzing what's going on.
About a decade ago I wrote some routines to execute in the background and defend from this sort of thing, and it's doing very well so far. That's why the site is not only still up, but also running smoothly. However, I'm not saying it could withstand a major attack. I'm just saying it's withstood what has been done so far.
Anyway I'm looking into it further right now.