Things are starting to come back online after 12 hours of fighting with DNS and proxies. Luck has been terrible all night (not just from DDoS, just bad luck in general), which isn't helped by the pool speed dropping 50% during the attacks.
When attacks happen I notice a substantial drop off in my earnings.
Why? It seems like the answer is obvious, but I don't get it.
If the hash rate of the pool drops because miners can't connect, or leave, or whatever, then I should be receiving more of a share in the earnings.
Said another way... The payout of PPLNS is determined by the number of individuals contributing over the last 10 rounds. So why do I always see a drop of in my earnings when a DDOS attack occurs?
Because we had bad luck at the same time as the DDoS. Normally losing pool speed wouldn't affect 24h earnings much, because you get a bigger share of each block. But at lower pool speeds, bad luck takes longer to power through. As a result of bad luck DURING the attack, we had 12 hours where luck was just plain awful instead of 3 or 4 hours of bad luck.