the cost is to hire someone to do it for you...if you are tech savvy you can do it yourself for free.
ddos software is sketchy. if you noticed, for example, our current datacenter brags on its homepage that it employs ddos software...any one of us can see how effective it has been.
the only thing, imo, that really deters someone from doing these types of activities online is fear that they may get caught. The FBI DOES investigate ddos attacks...and it DOES have the technology and manpower to track someone down through the zombie IPs to a real person.
The odds, however, of the FBI using any resources on project1999 is slim. We do not "make money" so when our servers go down we aren't losing money---like real businesses do who go to the FBI. We aren't a government agency, nor do we provide some essential service for our clients.
We are a free game server. This puts us about as far down the food chain in terms of criminal activity as you can get. Our attacker, therefore, has no real fear of being caught...no matter how often or how uncleanly he launches the ddos.
The only hope we really have is to play a cat and mouse game with him...we increase our security...he increases his efforts to get though....
OR, we can only hope he comes to his senses and realizes that the people he is punishing are not the people he has an issue with. If Rogean closes down the project who loses?
Its the hundreds of players that built a meaningful community in cyberspace who are being hurt. If the ddos'er is reading the boards I hope you think about this for a little bit.
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