Translations:Security/35/en

Typical provider reaction: they take down YOUR server
The most common reaction is, sadly, that when your server is under an intense flooding attack, the provider will close your account or (temporarily) make your server unavailable. They deliberately take your server down, routing all the traffic to it to nowhere (see blackholing on wikipedia). This is because, if the flood is big, then the flood to your server may saturate the internet uplink and affect other customers at the hosting provider as well, so by blackholing your server the provider stops the flood so their other customers are not affected. Of course, the big downside of this is that the innocent victim, your server, is taken offline.