Massive DDoS attacks can be devastating, no matter who or where you are. Estonia suffered under a huge denial-of-service attack in April. If a very large bot net was used to attack a single country’s Internet backbone, it would take that country a few days to get legitimate traffic going again. DDoS attackers will often start at lower traffic levels and attempt to increase the pain until your ISP, an upstream neighbor, or your servers fold. If you want to stay in business, you’ll need to absorb all the attack traffic along with your legitimate traffic.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2633116/don-t-laugh-at-estonia—-it-could-happen-to-you.html