It's uncharitable of you to assume she can't tell the difference between a botne...

untog · on March 21, 2013

It's uncharitable of you to assume she can't tell the difference between a botnet and a spike in traffic.

I don't think so. It's incredibly difficult to tell the difference, given that a DDOS is a huge spike in traffic.

sp332 · on March 21, 2013

Real users load CSS and images, run javascript, stay on the page more than a second, etc.

untog · on March 21, 2013

Not when they can't load the page, they don't. Once a traffic spike overwhelms the server no-one sees any HTML, downloads CSS or stays on the page.