Largest DDoS Attack On WP.com Yet

[Jeffro]

Looks like WordPress.com had some issues the other day thanks to a gigantic DDoS attack that Matt thinks could have been politically motivated against one of their non-English speaking blogs.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/03/wor...r-ddos-attack/

I didn't know that the WP.com VIP partners were on the same infrastructure network as regular WordPress.com users. I wonder how they plan on putting VIP members into a silo to protect them from these kinds of attacks without putting them all on their own infrastructure.

[Ryan]

Yep, that's the whole point of using VIP, so that you are on the same infrastructure as WordPress.com.

This is quite unfortunate for WordPress.com as they've had a spectacularly good run with reliability for a long time now.

[andreasnrb]

Well it was bound to happen sooner or later. Will probably increase in the future with all the outspoken bloggers in various nations.

[Ryan]

Whoever wrote that TechCrunch article needs to get their facts straight. WordPress.com does not power 10% of the internet, WordPress does; so only a small subset of that 10% was affected. Also, DDoS =! Anonymous is a weird statement to make; presumably they meant DDSO != Anonymous.

[Jeffro]

What's the first two things you notice when reading the headline as the first sentence in this post?

http://www.pcworld.com/article/22135...os_attack.html

Other than that, WordPress.com was hit a second time and it looks like the majority of the attack came from China. Big surprise...

[chipbennett]

What's the first two things you notice when reading the headline as the first sentence in this post?

http://www.pcworld.com/article/22135...os_attack.html

Other than that, WordPress.com was hit a second time and it looks like the majority of the attack came from China. Big surprise...

The lede even links to dot-ORG, rather than dot-COM. Sheesh.