It's not DDoS, it's just bad servers.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I hadnt encountered it prior, but good to know. (Though this would be counter to the following statement)
Im still very untrusting of SE, since they have grown accustomed to both avoiding the truth, and straight up giving PR versions of the truth after HW. (and most likely during, but I was still too gullible back then to tell the difference)

Just look at the Lodestone. Look through the history of issues, and see that they state "network hardware, server hardware, or server program" as the fault when its on their end. They don't even blame all network issues on DDOS attacks. If a node is bad, they tend to report network route issues, not DDOS.
They have never lied about it, that I can find, and until they stop reporting those other error causes, I will continue to give them the benefit of the doubt.

Conspiracies do not help.