DDoS stands for distributed denial-of-service. The point of the attack is to inundate your website with traffic, to the point that it can’t handle the influx of users and collapses under its own weight. In the simplest terms, a DDoS attack would be like if someone organized a parade across an entire stretch of highway with the express purpose of preventing you from driving to work.
Theoretically speaking, it would be possible for a hacker to make this happen with real people, but they would need a lot of people connecting to your website simultaneously to make it happen. This is why, instead, hackers typically utilize botnets to perform DDoS attacks. A botnet is a network of computers that have been infected with some form of malware. At the hacker’s command, every infected computer in the botnet attempts to connect to your website, often in multiple instances to maximize saturation.
There are variations of DDoS attacks such as HTTP floods, which overwhelm your site by rapidly refreshing, and protocol attacks, which specifically target network equipment and firewalls, but generally speaking, it’s all about hitting you with as much malicious traffic as quickly as possible.
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