Category: wordpress.com
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WordPress.com DDoS Details
As you may have heard, on March 3rd and into the 4th, 2011, WordPress.com was targeted by a rather large Distributed Denial of Service Attack. I am part of the systems and infrastructure team at Automattic and it is our team’s responsibility to a) mitigate the attack, b) communicate status updates and details of the…
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New Datacenter for WordPress.com
Towards the end of 2008, we brought online a new datacenter to serve the over 5.5 million blogs now hosted on the WordPress.com platform. Adding the data center in Chicago, IL gives us a total of 3 data centers across the US which serve live content at any given time. We have decommissioned one of…
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Anatomy of a Denial of Service Attack
Running one of the largest websites on the internet with about 5 million unique sites hosted exposes you to all sorts of issues. There are constant events to deal with, some internal, some external. This morning, one of the more common external events, a Distributed Denial of Service Attack occurred. We experience these types of…
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WordPress.com using S3
Demitrious has a great post explaining how we are using S3, Varnish, and Pound to serve 60 million image requests per day on WordPress.com UPDATE: Almost forgot, but Matt reminded me, he has a really super duper awesome post about WordPress.com and S3 too!
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One milllllliion blogs on WordPress.com
At 10:56:22PM PDT on 5/23/2007, the 1 millionth active blog was registered on WordPress.com. And the winner is….. claudiacanals.wordpress.com Not much there right now, but hopefully there will be soon. Maybe head over and leave a comment on their about page to let them know! Predictions on how long it will take to get to…
Barry on WordPress 