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Re:Ask HN: A decentralised way to fight DDoS attacks? by warrenm on Saturday December 18, 2021 @12:03PM (#29606130)
I get flood requests periodically to the WordPress sites I run, but have never been DDoS'd

I'm curious as to your host specs: WordPress isn't the only thing running on my server, so the specs I've got may not make sense for you - but I'd lean towards a server configuration issue before wanting to rely on Cloudflare's skeeziness

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Re:Ask HN: A decentralised way to fight DDoS attacks? by nanna on Saturday December 18, 2021 @04:12PM (#29608556)
It's a pretty low spec server tbh. Only 1gb ram, but that's plenty for regular usage. Assuming the botnet will just pump requests until all our memory's used up, so not much point upgrading, but maybe we should give it a try.
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Re:Ask HN: A decentralised way to fight DDoS attacks? by warrenm on Thursday December 23, 2021 @08:36AM (#29661652)
I've never personally seen a server with more than 512M RAM have issues running WordPress

Do you have swap setup?

Any weird PHP settings?

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