Jim Hu wrote:
Even if you didn't want to do this at the wiki level, I don't think special equipment is needed. If you know where the DDOS is coming from, you can block at the Apache level, the firewall level, or use throttling scripts.
Clearly you have no experience with real DDoS attacks, then. If a web page falls in the forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
(For the zen-challenged: functioning servers aren't very useful when no one can reach them.)