RE: Steemit: DDoS Attacks - Take it as a compliment

Hello abh12345!
I hope that the ‘effective eager beavers’ in this community will get their heads focused on this issue very soon, and thanks for contributing to the development of the focus.
Here is one bottom line staring us in the face. There is no way that the current frequency of website (Steemit) inaccessibility, extreme slow down, posts being lost or failing to get accepted unless there are resubmissions, will fail to hurt the branding of Steemit. It may not fail to hurt the arrival of new accounts due to our current uniqueness; but let us pray that serious rivals arrive slowly rather than quickly!
Moreover, when Ned goes out next year in search of “SMT recruits”, the existence of this situation at that time is going to cause him to lose quite a bit of sleep. So, it doesn’t matter what he says at Steemfest. It far more matters what he does before he gets into his new marketing program.
Here’s one place to start. I have not experienced any DDos attack effects at various financial institutions, or at various media outlets whose competitors would love to take them down. Beyond my particular experience, I rarely read of these organizations having Ddos attacks that create impacts on their clients’ usage of their websites. So, what are they are doing that Ned is not doing?
Here is another topic. A couple of the other commentators here have mentioned the names of other sites to which one can go when there is trouble at Steemit. So, I am asking whether it is feasible and reasonably affordable to have multiple Steemit ‘nodes’, forcing the DDos attackers to take them all on at the same time. I recognize that I’m getting into hardware and network design issues on which I’m a total ignoramus; but I raise the question anyway.