Denial of Service attack (DDoS) had brought WordPress to suffer from a m(–foul word(s) removed–)ive struggle throughout the World Wide Web recently.
Being one of the biggest blog hosting sites, WordPress caters almost 18 million sites which resulted to an average of about 600 million weekly page views from all over the world.
According to the founding developer of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg, the attack was said to be the largest and most sustained (–foul word(s) removed–)ault they have ever experienced from their six years of existence.
The attack made the company give further notifications Thursday morning to their paying subscribers via email.
That afternoon, Mullenweg have said that DDoS attack has been currently neutralized but it might have the possibility that it would flame up once again.
They have suspected that it may have been politically motivated against one of their non-English blogs. Investigations are still on the process yet, they still haven’t got any definite evidence as of now.
The size of the attack was calculated to be multiple Gigabits per second and tens of millions of packets per second.
Finally, the site ran normally when the attack has already subsided.
Websites usually find it difficult to defend against DDoS for its attacks were extremely hard to the extent that it is able to target those giant servers. Whenever the attack trigger, even expert users cannot easily handle the said problem easily.
Big websites such as Google and Amazon.com make it to a point to maintain the resources they have to scale up against the possible attacks of DDoS.
