Last week I experienced my first DDOS. The server was caned for about 48 hours straight, and watching the Google Analytics real-time traffic report became more entertaining than an episode of Gogglebox.
Then I discovered what happened. Second page of Hacker News! [submission]
Iโve heard about people being โslash-dottedโ before, a popular news site for IT folk that can basically DDOS your server if you feature prominently. Never did I think it would happen to me.
Luckily, my statically generated HTML website, generated from a local WordPress instance and uploaded to a DigitalOcean droplet held up well, although I hope there arenโt any excess bandwidth charges.
The funny thing is, of all the thousands of posts Iโve written over many years, the one picked up by Hacker News was quickly drafted on my iPhone in under 10 minutes, and was originally posted on LinkedIn as a question.
