I am genuinely curious as to who is DDoSing the website, and how. For them to have been doing it for so long, unless they have/own their own botnet, they must be spending some serious cash. Though if I may speculate, if it is from another manga aggregate website,
and this is just pure speculation, I wouldn't be surprised if many users from said site either had their computers infected in some sort of way to participate in such a botnet attack (like through all of the ads that are displayed on a website that can easily be exploited for people who don't run AV software or ad blocking plugins in browsers), or the website
itself has something built into it so that end users' computers could participate in a botnet attack.
If it's just as easy for someone (a hacker) to get an end user's computer to mine crypto just by visiting a website (compromised or otherwise) and keeping that website open all the time, then it sure as hell would be easy to set up a website to help participate in a botnet attack. I mean, seriously, how many people who use computers are actually tech savvy enough to know when their CPU utilization is tapped out?
Idk, just my two cents. I'm still glad to hear the news, though! I've def noticed a difference in speed, even with the plugins I use in Waterfox.
@seekermoc I wouldn't say that it's slower, but more like the DDoS is affecting the servers enough that that would happen. Everything responds quite fast, and most times when the website 502's on me, or I get a d/c, once I can get back in, it's quick loading. This is just unfortunate residual due to the DDoS.