No it's not obvious and what are you talking about, me needing to provide my own proof for acting solid, etc?
What the proverbial fuck are you talking about?
Now again, can you provide proof of this massive DDos?
Several websites were being DDoS'd (including this one all morning long) at the same time the crash was going on. They could be related, but I'd wager the DDoS wasn't helping. Why it would work, I haven't a clue. Just an odd coincidence, if anything.