This is just my own personal advise to new and possibly old players alike.... but.... when Uncle DDOS comes a knocking, go play something else until he gets bored and leaves the front porch. To all the players out there that are complaining about having lost stuff, this is a game, you can simply get it back. It's not as if the admins went and deleted a weeks worth of forum posts because THAT would be hard to replace.... your ships and credits and rep can be replaced through a simple bit of hard work, while your chars RP and other posts would take a LOT more and most likely still not be right.
At least the Admins did not get upset and say "FRAK IT" and stop paying for the server and forums due to being upset. They stuck through the pain and aggravation of fixing the issue, thus allowing us players to continue playing this mostly FREE GAME.
NOW.... IF you wish to keep complaining about DDOS attacks and crappy connections and what not, why not decide to NOT spend your next bit of allowance on that game you just HAVE to have that you will probably only play for a month and get bored with it (As I have done so many times) and decide to donate to the server / forum fund to hopefully allow the Admins to pay for better server protection? I am already working on re budgeting my account JUST so that I can donate 20 USD to the server once I get my next check.
Stop griping about the crappy quality of a free game and try doing something about it.
To the Admins out there that have brought us such a great game and community, I thank you.