Practical guides for anyone running a website or an online shop: how to recognise an attack, what to do right away and how to stop it happening again. Written by the team that runs the 1PrimeCDN network.
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Emergency pageYour site is down, the server is at 100% and the logs are full of strange requests? Here is what to do in the first 30 minutes of a DDoS attack, in order, without panicking.
DDoS & securitySlow site, 502 and 503 errors, server at 100%: is it a DDoS attack, a hosting problem or just too much traffic? The 8 signs that tell you in a few minutes.
DDoS & securityWordPress is the favourite target of bots and DDoS attacks. Why wp-login.php, xmlrpc.php and search bring the server to its knees, and how to protect them, with and without plugins.
DDoS & securityOnline shops are special targets: bots testing stolen cards at checkout, bots emptying stock into carts, copying prices or taking the site down during sales. How to recognise and stop them.
DDoS & securityA good share of any website's traffic comes from bots. Some are useful (Google, Bing), others copy content, try passwords or burn resources. How to tell them apart and stop only the bad ones.
DDoS & securityYou put the site behind a CDN but the attack goes on? It's probably hitting the server's IP directly. How attackers find a site's real address and how to close this back door.
CDN & speedA CDN brings your site close to its visitors, makes it faster and protects it from attacks. How it works, what it caches, what it costs and when it's really worth it.
CDN & speedTime to first byte (TTFB) measures how long the server takes to start answering. What it is, how to measure it in a minute, why your site is slow and how caching takes it from hundreds of milliseconds to a few.