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		edwardy20 on Aug 10, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Anonymous Pledges to Take Down Facebook Will a DDOS attack affect a website that gets billions of pageviews per month anyways?

rorrr on Aug 10, 2011 | [–]

It really depends how they attack. They might have found some URLs that require a lot more resources (CPU or I/O) than your normal user behavior.

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