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.
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.
America’s healthcare system resists quick changes. The Covid pandemic, with its pressure on bed capacity, staff preparedness and access to reliable information, aggravated the problems. But moving faster is possible thanks to advances in technology.
Google and Yahoo Mail will require email domain authentication in place to accept emails beginning in February 2024. To prevent your emails from being rejected, add domain authentication this winter.
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.
Top developers recommend Pantheon’s Custom Upstreams over Drupal Multisite because it protects you from the risks of running your sites on a single codebase while giving you the flexibility you need to customize hundreds, or even thousands, of sites. What does this new, day-to-day workflow look like? Compare how Custom Upstreams stacks up against Drupal Multisite.
Hey, Steve Persch here. I'm going to try using this one blog post to serve two purposes.