@BitChaser
A DDoS attack is short for a denial-of-service (DoS) or distributed denial-of-service (DDoS). It's just an attempt to deny service/access to a server or website by flooding the site with lots and lots and lots of spam traffic.
Could be caused by a competitor site.
Thank you for this. Basically just constant pinging the server? Must be something pretty simple to do since it happens so much. Is it one person running it from a computer, or a server, or a botnet or a shit ton of assholes with the same goal in mind? Is this similar to the Low Orbit Ion Cannon or w/e I read about LuLz using?