Your "implication" is that LE only does investigation for the purpose of prosecution. That is simply not the case. And another statement you made "implies" that local LE works independent of the Feds. That is also simply not the case. The relationship for the most part is ... locals have the tech skills with respect to computers and the Feds have the internet/equipment capacity to facilitate the exploration of people's phones, laptops, and computers from a distance without being detected. With respect to the latter DHS resources are available to local LE. Historically both do "illegal" activities that are prohibited to citizens; meaning illegal to citizens, but not LE.
Originally Posted by LexusLover
It is odd that you think there was implication in my comment that you quoted.
If there was a suspected criminal activity, there would be an investigation that would be conducted without the suspect's knowledge until such time a decisions would be made to either continue or drop. If continue the server itself would be seized via a warrant and the law would investigate in their own lab. The site itself would not be up at any capacity and those trying to access it would get things like error 404 or some placeholder message, not some message saying a DDOS attack was going on.
FACT (this is for you LL since you do not know how webhosting works so get your Big Chief Tablet out, and your oversized #2 pencil ready) A site is hosted on a server which can host the 1 site or many sites. Usually that server is in a DataCenter that either a hosting company rents space and servers at. Or the Hosting company owns the entire data center. Either way the operator of the DataCenter monitors data traffic into and out of their center and provide basic security for their clients or if it is the hosting company's DC they do the same to protect their servers.
Such protections set up defend against DDOS, IDS, hacking, and other levels. DDOS can be thwarted in many ways. Because OH2 does not have a valid CERT which pointed out costs less than 100 bucks makes me believe that something else is going on.
A DDOS might have been used but the ways to thwart them generally stop them after 1-2 days.