No point in complaining. All the bakers who did this for years got a taste of freedom and probably aren't coming back. Not even if the BVs stop freezing them out every time.
Oh yeah, I was wondering if anyone was dumb enough to believe this.
I've been through tons of DDOS attacks on this site and they always do something like shut down an image server. Never seen cache damage before. You're presenting this "theory" a little too confidently.
DDOS attacks have a different effect. This was a software problem with the site. My CPU was getting hit even harder than usual during the incident. Bad enough it was noticeable on my desktop. It's more likely that something Hotwheels did back in the day finally broke.
From the summary in global announcements, it still sounds like something more than a normal DDOS. Mirroring the page hundreds of times a second, which would be a gigabyte a second in some cases, is exactly the kind of thing Vanwanet is set up to stop.
Hotwheels spent all of his money DDOSing this site and couldn't achieve a result like that. If it was an attack, it was a cyber warfare level attack.
I specifically mean through DDOS. Which he admitted to doing after the deplatforming, to 8kun.
Unless the Pavuk site they were using had military levels of bandwidth, it's implausible.