Google Cloud Stops Monster DDoS Attack https://thenewstack.io/google-cloud-stops-monster-ddos-attack/ by @sjvn

These days if you have an important website, you must have Distributed Denial of Service protection, whether it's from Google Cloud or another #security provider.

@sjvn

I'm glad not to have an important web site, this stuff runs into money.

@mcfate It surely does. For smaller sites, however, CloudFlare's free service for WordPress-based sites is remarkably good. https://www.cloudflare.com/integrations/wordpress/free-ddos-protection-wordpress/

@sjvn

I'm on the verge of kicking Wordpress to the curb, just on the basis that no matter how completely unrewarding you make it for them, hackers will not stop trying to break in.

@mcfate @sjvn ~ I recently gave up and moved my two sites to Google's Blogger. With highly customisable 3rd-party themes, it looks just like my old WP news theme. Image management is atrocious, still, so I serve images from a low-cost acct at a web host.

@SheepOverboard @sjvn

I self-host almost everything, and I absolutely will not do anything to benefit the Goog, they're thieves and the reason I got laid off.

@mcfate Fair enough, but as a penny pincher I've no choice financially. Blogger is free with no adverts, though of course they no doubt have figured how to monetise my work.