Internet Archive is suffering from a DDoS attack
DDoS is making it so small players (and very large ones like the IA) can&#x27;t run web sites anymore. It&#x27;s time to stop bullshitting this problem and pretending it&#x27;s going to go away or that you can sign up for a magic cheap plan somewhere and all the problems stop happening. We really, really need to start getting active about solving this problem.<p>That means building DDoS protection into the nature of the web and all hosting <i>by default</i> (AWS and GCS I&#x27;m looking at you), and that means actively prosecuting DDoS attackers.<p>That also means, if you&#x27;re a cloud DDoS provider, not helping to protect the sites where these attacks are marketed.