Quote Originally Posted by Jeppo View Post
Hmm, guess I am as wise as I was before...
See a DDoS attack as following:

The receiving server is a postal box. In front of the postal box you have a person standing who's stuffing the postal box with empty sheets of paper. The postal box is filled up. A legit sender tries to enter their letter, but the box is full. Even after the postal box gets emptied, the person still keeps stuffing it with empty pages.

In a DDoS attack the situation is very much alike. Servers are flooded with meaningless requests. As the servers process this data, actual data doesn't get the opportunity to reach the server and get processed timely.