Wordpress.com Suffers Major DDoS Attack
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We're also facing a multi-gigabit attack this week and have dealt with some in the past. Happy to compare notes if you'd like: david@weebly.com.
If you're a publisher it's a great deal, we can absorb huge spikes in traffic because the scale of what we do. But you have the risk of being collateral damage in something that affects all of WP.com, like a DDoS or bad code deploy.
On the bright side, anything that impacts all of WP.com is an all-hands-on-deck matter for us since it's the vast majority of our business, so we're as aligned as could be.