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 Improves Protection from Malicious Traffic
One of Pantheon’s primary purposes is to safeguard the security, stability and scalability of our customers’ websites. This is the foundation of everything else we do, and this year one of the new challenges we’ve faced is an increasing number of sophisticated denial of service activities, which necessitated a creative response from our engineers and product managers.
Congratudolences: You Inherited a Website
Yes! You got what you wanted. You have a new job where you are in charge of the website. And that means you get to make all the decisions about how to run website operations or WebOps.
Well, like it or not, three decades into the World Wide Web, it's rare (and not necessarily desirable) to start from scratch. Whether you're a digital marketer, a developer or an IT director, having authority to lead the future direction of your site comes with the responsibility for past decisions.
Pantheon Includes Object Cache Pro for Painless Improved Performance
Hey, Steve Persch here. I'm going to try using this one blog post to serve two purposes.
- Announce that any WordPress site on a Performance or Elite plan gets access to Object Cache Pro.
- Reintroduce myself in a new role: Director of Developer Experience
Hubbard Broadcasting Chooses WordPress on Pantheon for its Digital News
Hubbard Broadcasting runs 50 television and radio stations across 10 states. A hundred-year-old company, this traditional media network had to adapt to the pressures of the digital age and follow its audience where they are – online.
How to Automate Website Security Updates
In this post, we’ll break down the common vulnerabilities of an outdated CMS and how Pantheon’s Autopilot keeps your portfolio of websites secure.