They are obviously just attacking the pool and not the website this time...
Just wondering what sort of DDoS protection the pool has?
Is there not a way to cluster the pool and have a failover redundancy? Obviously it would incur extra expense but would only be using bandwidth during attacks....
I'm waiting to see what kind of bandwidth the DDoS is using, and yes load balancing a few servers is a real possibility here.
And shares will be counted, but right now on stratum you are probably having a lot of stales/invalids.