Originally Posted By: DesertFox
How do you determine that a web site is being attacked, as opposed to just having technical difficulties?


Well, an attack give a site technical difficulties...so it's hard to say from the outside.

From the inside, it's a totally different story. A DDoS attack is pretty amazing, as is a buffer overflow attack and more...you just get saturated with requests and malformed requests and SQL injection tests - tens of thousands of requests at once...it's interesting to see it on a network monitoring screen.