What a strange topic for my second post!<\/p>\n
There is a good reason for it, though. Recently my site, hosted by http:\/\/bluehost.com<\/a>, started getting all silly and just generally giving “this page can’t be displayed” errors about every time I tried to load a page. Usually I could refresh my browser to get the page to load.<\/p>\n In a chat session with a Blue Host rep, I learned that the machine my shared hosting account is hosted on was experiencing a DDoS attack. In short, this is a denial of service attack whereby upset or malicious individuals pelt a machine with so much information, such as log in requests or just about anything as far as I know, and generally cause the server to be overloaded. They explained that this is not an attack on my site personally, but on the machine that my files are stored on.<\/p>\n So the way I see it, someone else who has a shared hosting account with Blue Host stored on the same machine that holds my own site must have ticked somebody off who has the know-how to do this sort of activity. That ticked off (or rather disgustingly bored) entity must be punishing them by launching a DDoS attack on their website’s IP. The problem is, with shared hosting accounts, we all use the same IP address (at least in the case of Blue host).<\/p>\n That said, Blue Host has three different shared hosting plans. I currently use the middle option, which does not include a dedicated IP. The next plan up does, and places your site’s files on a machine with 80 percent fewer other accounts than the plan I use. But, it is 240 dollars a year (according to my reading). They mentioned that I could get a dedicated IP for about 40 dollars a year on top of the cost of my existing plan (which turns out cheaper than the higher plan). They added that the dedicated IP should be a sure way to prevent such attacks from affecting my site again. Unless of course I got attacked directly.<\/p>\n So this is what I did. I’m now 40 dollars poorer, and the DDoS attacks have stopped causing me problems, just like that! How much do you wanna bet the attacks actually stopped right after I spent my money? My luck runs like that. But, ah well, can’t have everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What a strange topic for my second post! There is a good reason for it, though. Recently my site, hosted by http:\/\/bluehost.com, started getting all silly and just generally giving “this page can’t be displayed” errors about every time I tried to load a page. Usually I could refresh my browser to get the page … Continue reading DDoS attacks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whats-new"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valiant8086.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valiant8086.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valiant8086.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valiant8086.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valiant8086.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/valiant8086.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8,"href":"https:\/\/valiant8086.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valiant8086.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valiant8086.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valiant8086.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}