Whether it's ASH or friendly fire coming from curious newbies, a DOS attack is simply that. A fast server, running on unlimited bandwidth is still subject to only so many concurrent connections.
Forums are notorious for having thousands of users all issuing keep-alive pings to stay online - all the time. Unlike a web site (where the database is only taxed when a request is made) you can easily have less than a thousand users who effectually never log off.
I hope the server migration does indeed take care of the timeouts, but if not, a core cluster or mirrored server farm may be needed.



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