Quote Originally Posted by Tarfeon View Post
Hi guys,

I do not understand much about DDoS attacks, but if SE blocked free accounts and suspended this trial service for a while, would not they stop those attacks? Is it not necessary to have an active account to log in to the server?
Wouldn't help at all.
A DDoS attack basically just consists of throwing lots of network packets from lots of different sources towards the datacenter. Those packets will swamp the network connections and prevent legitimate traffic from getting through.
You can't filter out the bogus packets without looking at them - and at that point most of the damage is already done.

There is no easy way of stopping a DDoS attack, and often the best that can be done is to mitigate the attacks - and that is the job of ISPs.