Ddos

Distributed Denial of Service (see DoS).

A distributed denial of service is many computers on the Internet coordinating a DoS against a single host, network or network infrastructure. A DDoS doesn't need to fully exhaust your services, but keep a steady monetary burden on the current state of your service, forcing you to eventually give in and stop the service altogether.

A DDoS can be done by people who have hijacked a great number of hosts (known as zombie hosts) or done by members of organizations who have moral, political, religious or capitalistic motives.

• Stories posted to Slashdot can be seen as the control for a DDoS, and all the slashdotters clicking on the link of a site contribute to the load on that remote web server. When a web server is unable to handle the loads of HTTP demand it is said to have been "slashdotted". This drives home the point that freedom of speech on the Internet can be a costly affair. You can have a good idea but if you can't put money behind it, popularity like being featured on slashdot will put you to ruins. Looking at it another way slashdot may be an engine designed on forcing people to use advertising which pays the owner of a webpage enough to sustain slashdot hits on their content on the Internet, but it also allows outside influence and unwanted advertisement on their site which may cost the owner of the site popularity or possible capitalistic gain from their idea.
• Google works the same way as slashdot,if they dislike you they can move you up in their search causing more hits, forcing you to possibly feature google ads on your site which they (google) control. And once they have you in their cold evil grip, they'll never let you go.
• Large organizations also have the power of "slashdotting" sites that they have a moral disagreement with. Sometimes they'll ask you to reload the site a few times to create the extra load on the remote servers.