Quote Originally Posted by Taliriah View Post
That's a flawed analogy for a ddos: the attackers aren't customers, they are just in the way. A better analogy would be: a bunch of people show up in your restaurant but are just standing around, not ordering anything. More staff wouldn't help, because the problem is all those non-customers hindering the staff. And you can't just kick them out, because you first have to talk with them to know if they're an actual customer or just here to be annoying.
Hmm I actually thought of them just standing around doing nothing but it felt like it didn't fit? I guess to me the making orders bit helped translate the overloaded servers and how the service is getting affected. But I think you're right in a way! If I imagine a restaurant that can serve let's say 40 people and has a capacity to fit 60 people. Then you suddenly had an influx of 300 people, standing around and disrupting the staff from serving the restaurant's actual customers. Hmm I think maybe that's a better analogy? Maybe?

Hmm I guess I equated the server resources to staff which made more sense to me? But now that I think of it I think your correction makes more sense. To me I'm guessing a combination of 'make the restaurant bigger, hire more chefs/staff' would make them slightly less affected but I think the best way is to stop these 'I'm gonna enter and chill' at the door. I guess this boils down to my limited understanding! Thank you so much for clarifying. It's a really interesting thing, but I'm not tech savvy at all so I need to kinda break things down for my unwrinkly brain.