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WordPress.com DDoS Attacks Primarily From China, Possibly Politically Motivated (via TechCrunch)

I love that one of the comments had the same reference to the Titanic that I had yesterday. It is kind of odd that we compare a successful company to something else that was “too big to fail“. I guess a better comparison than comparing to AIG.

Wordpress.com DDoS Attacks Primarily From China, Possibly Politically Motivated After recovering from the largest Distributed Denial of Service attack in the service’s history (“multiple Gigabits per second and tens of millions of packets per second“) yesterday morning, blog host WordPress.com was attacked again very early this morning, finally stabilizing its service at 11:15 UTC (around 3:15 am PST). WordPress.com serves 18 million sites, many of them news sites like our own,  which lead some to conjecture that the attacks … Read More

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WordPress blog service down: Huge DDoS attack – Computerworld Blogs

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WordPress blog service down: Huge DDoS attack – Computerworld Blogs. My website has been down at least once, and probably more than that. They said in another post that their VIP sites are priority for keeping up. I wonder how they are fairing? Sort of like the Titanic. Save the rich. Of course if I could afford to pay $600 a month I’d expect it to be up to.

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STATS: WordPress vs. WordPress.com vs. Posterous (via Music Tech Talk)

Can anyone verify that Posterous submits faster to Google than WordPress?

Let the Contest begin.  For a while, I published my blog to as many as 15 different hosts to see which one’s I liked best.   Currently, I have narrowed it down to only 3 hosts to do a stats comparison:  Self-Hosted Word press, WordPress.com and Posterous.  There are pluses and minuses to each platform, but stat-wise, there is a clear winner…  But before we get to that a few things:First, the SH and Poster … Read More

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SEO Secrets for WordPress.com (via raincoaster media)


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WordPress.com has been very helpful in sharing content. I agree that you can quickly achieve results with using WP.

 

Image via CrunchBase Everybody wants to know about SEO. Everybody wants to make Google their bitch. And some days it seems like EVERYONE wants to run giddily away from WordPress.com so they can access the supernatural power of the All In One SEO plugin and I’m just about fed up with destroying their pretty little dreams one by one, but I do it because I must. Listen closely: There is no combination of plugins or sooper sekret SEO tricks that you … Read More

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