It's about bandwidth.

You get a certain amount of bandwidth available to you with any hosting package. The "unlimited" packages are limited on the CPU/Memory side. Such a DDoS will nuke your bandwidth and make your server use up all that memory and CPU. Thus, you'd get kicked for abuse.

I'm not saying "no, you can't", but more "you shouldn't" and it's more for your resources.

On top of that, your requests from the same IP, even if slow, without account activity may show up as an attacker since you'd be coming from a hosting farm. The worst DDoS' come from computers that are taken over and they fully look like standard visitors. Since Putt nuked entire net ranges of countries, they were probably from bots running on machines in those areas. This time, I haven't a clue as I haven't caught up on the latest post nor will he give much info (as he shouldn't).

And no offense taken. I'm just trying to save you some money.

Looks like you created 2 posts. I answered in https://voat.co/v/programming/3359777 as to why you probably can't stave off anything for long.

Mirrors will go down as well.

Technically, CloudFlare (Voat is hosted on it, or its sitting in front of the actual Voat server) is a Content Delivery Network (CDN). Putt also has anti-DDOS options turned on, which is why you see the "Checking your privilege" screen.

Unless you're going to do the same, and spend a decent amount of money, your site will go offline in seconds and you'll either be shut down for an entire month of bandwidth or have a very large bill for overages.

Putt's making attempts at pushing off the attacks and this happens at least once a year. Unless you really want to spend your money on hosting and anti-ddos options, let Putt handle it. It sucks but each time they do this, he learns other sneaky ways to stay online a little longer. Technically he could turn this whole thing into read-only and use something like Memcached, but that just defeats the purpose of us talking. I'm guessing it's why we saw (at least I did) "this is a cached copy" message during the day yesterday or such.

Source: I delete my accounts once in a while and have been here since Pao pulled her crap on Reddit a few years ago, this isn't my first rodeo here. I'm also a computer security guy.

Edit: Stupid letters sneaking in when they shouldn't.