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Halting DDoS Attacks: Effective Strategies for Prevention

In a DDoS attack, a website faces a surge in traffic beyond its capacity. Botnets, networks of infected devices controlled remotely by hackers, play a central role by simultaneously generating a massive volume of traffic from various sources. Upon the attacker's command, these botnets flood the target website or server with requests, causing it to crash under the excessive load.

Staying Ahead In The Game of Distributed Denial of Service Attacks

Too much traffic can crash a website. I learned that hard lesson relatively early in my web development career. Web teams recoil in horror when they realize their own success has crashed their site. Remember when Coinbase spent millions of dollars on a Super Bowl commercial that successfully drove traffic to their site and app? Their infrastructure got run over.

Pantheon Increases PHP Memory Limits for Performance and Elite Plans

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Pantheon has increased the PHP memory limit for Performance and Elite plans. PHP memory is essential for running your site’s software smoothly and efficiently. By increasing the memory limit, we're making sure that your websites can handle more complex tasks, process data faster and provide an even better user experience.

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