A kid opening a "fail" server has nothing to do with it at all, in fact those kind of servers are probably the LAST servers that would be DDOS'd, wtf is the point of attacking it if its failing on its own? On the other hand, like Hydra, it was a LARGE community, and was too successful for a DDOS'er to bypass. Those are the kind of servers that are mainly targeted, large scale, high populated, successful servers. So saying Hydra failed, makes you fail.
Sure, it unfortunate that the staff couldn't have the server well protected, but they would be looking at thousands of dollars most likely for something worth using, not no fucking cisco), especially for the large scale attacks they are getting now (started with a 'small' UDP attack, then increased, so someone is not -beep-ing around) and face it Hydra's donation list is fairly cheap, even with 2k players, most are not going to be donating(maybe over a long time-line, but not all at once).