"A denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users. Although the means to carry out, motives for, and targets of a DoS attack may vary, it generally consists of the concerted efforts of a person or people to prevent an Internet site or service from functioning efficiently or at all, temporarily or indefinitely.

One common method of attack involves saturating the target machine with external communications requests, such that it cannot respond to legitimate traffic, or responds so slowly as to be rendered effectively unavailable. In general terms, DoS attacks are implemented by either forcing the targeted computer(s) to reset, or consuming its resources so that it can no longer provide its intended service or obstructing the communication media between the intended users and the victim so that they can no longer communicate adequately." - From Wikipedia

A DDoS attack is basically like a zombie horde (the botnet) trying to clog up as much of your Moonbase (the server) as it can. It's a Zerg Rush. It's the clusterfuck of cyber-attacks. Security has nothing to do with it. Nobody's information is compromised. Basically, you just have to wait out the flood.

If anybody has been paying attention to world news lately, most of us should know this. Fairly recently DDoS attacks have been responsible for temporarily taking down websites belonging to the Libyan, Egyptian, and Tunisian governments. DDoS attacks have crashed Twitter and Facebook before. DDoS attacks have clogged up Visa, the MPAA, banks, etc. If servers like that aren't immune, then why would FA be?

So before anybody gets upset about whether the admins are doing their jobs, or thinking that their account in unsafe, or thinking that FA is doomed forever, take into consideration what a DDoS attack actually is, and calm down.

As always, all I ask is that people think before they react.