I believe they use Cloudflare and Prolexic to handle DDOS. I'm not sure how that applies to their trading engine though... it seems like they get flooded with huge numbers of .01 ask/bid adds and removes, and then the lag starts.
Actually, following up on that... I've noticed a lot of asks/bids with zero quantity scrolling by on clark moody, such as this:

No idea what that's about.