Roughly, a somewhat lackluster response to a somewhat lackluster DDoS attempt.<p>They tried blocking specific ip addresses, which didn't work, because the attack was somewhat distributed. They then just turned on some caching, which allowed the site to function, albeit with an unknown excess bandwidth charge pending.<p>And, the DDoS itself can't of been terribly impressive, as all it took to mitigate was a bit of caching. He mentions 10 requests / sec as the scale of the attack.