me thinks it depends on the exploit, HTTP is a separate service on its own while its on the same machine that also handles FTP service. One may not necessarily effect the entire server. It can also depend on the server OS, I am more familiar with IIS and Novell servers.
reedit:
Network DoS vs. Web App DoS
Whereas network level DoS attacks aim to flood your pipe with lower-level OSI traffic (SYN packets, etc...), web application layer DoS attacks can often be achieved with much less traffic. Just take a look at Rsnake's Slowloris app if you want to see a perfect example of the fragility of web server availability. The point here is that the amount of traffic which can often cause an HTTP DoS condition is often much less than what a network level device would identify as anomalous and therefore would not report on it as they would with traditional network level botnet DDoS attacks.
that should explain my question, which I sort of answered anyways..
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