Adding a russian keyboard layout would have been enough. Every windows sysadmin should know that.

Elon Musk apparently cannot stop. This is extremely high, there is only fuel left for a few extra seconds. He is not ironman, but apparently is taking the wrong drugs.

It could be a real DDoS attack but most likely it's a normal business day. You have to realize this: Filmfestival ticket reservation systems are always DDoS'ed by nature. 30.000 people need tickets for the current day, and the ticket is available starting at a fixed time. 10am usually. So all those 30.000 set their alarm clocks and try to login and hit reload every 2 seconds to get into the system. The java backend server behind a varnish cache is too slow to handle all those concurrent attempts, because they are lame, and the festival has no money to upgrade a decent modern async server system SW. They go down every single year, with various ridiculous countermeasures. I'm a regular at such film festivals. I usually tricked the Sundance ticket system every year, by knowing exactly at which second when to hit enter once. Only the first 100-200 get a chance to see the movie. E.g. last year it was practically impossible to get an online ticket for the best movie of the year "Manchester by the sea". It got perfect ratings from the very first day on, like this years "Call me by your name". Thousands of people tried to get it, but I was unsuccessful for all 5 screenings. Same thing could have happened for "Call me by your name", which by all statistic measures is the biggest sensation ever since the latest Cannes rave 2012 by Jean-Luc Godard. https://cannes-rurban.rhcloud.... vs https://cannes-rurban.rhcloud.... And I for sure wouldn't have stormed the ticket system for a crazy amateur Godard movie. But for the latest Italian Guadagnino movie with perfect 10 ratings all over and Arnie Hammer as homo, sure. Could have been a real ICMP or TCP flood attack also, but for what lame reason? The biggest reason is the big demand and horrible offer.