If it's a ddos the culprit is probably an angry ex-player who worked a random and anonymous group of wanna-be hackers into chargin' up their lazers on MT. This kind of systematic attack can be exploited with very little technical knowledge but is rarely efficient without multiple hosts, so punks mislead a group of wanna-be's into spamming packets until we can't handle it anymore - most of the time on premise that we're some sort of malware developer or internet bad guy. In my day, you couldn't rely on some misled kids going from 0 to master with one install and a little social psychological engineering to cause an interruption. Nowadays, there are almost as many willing slaves as there are intruded slaves. One does not simply become immune to ddos, prevention is the only control and I'm certain the data center will be looking into security after the recent attacks. It is becoming much more common for ISP's to take action against attackers, because many of them are ignorant traceable folk. If it's your birthday, blow out a candle and hope some of them get paperwork.

Not necessarily, as some servers host ad's or require donations to join, it can earn the owner a fair bit of money. Therefore some servers may hire someone to ddos servers that are majorly popular to try and discredit them as having poor uptime to try and get players to leave the server.

In case you're bored: The Tekkit server is still up and running! If you haven't tried out tekkit before, now might be a good time <object class="emojione" data="https://resources.enjin.com/1489581540/themes/core/images/emojione/svg/1f642.svg?0" type="image/svg+xml" standby=":)">:)</object>

Its still down?

They get sent to jail for that? LOL

here we sit like birds in the wilderness....waiting to go play...

MOMMY MOMMY... Is it up yet?!

Could be, seeing as how DDoS attacks are illegal in the US, UK, and various other countries.

here we sit like traffic cones...waiting to play

Sooo... How 'bout this weather we been havin?