Nearly 18 million blogs hosted by WordPress were either slowed or offline after the service was hit with an unusually large distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, according to Automattic, which operates the hosting service. “The size of the attack is multiple Gigabits per second and tens of millions of packets per second,” WordPress said in a status update. “We are working to mitigate the attack, but because of the extreme size, it is proving rather difficult.”
Matt Mullenweg founde rof Word Press: ‘This is the largest and most sustained attack we’ve seen in our 6 year history. We suspect it may have been politically motivated against one of our non-English blogs but we’re still investigating and have no definitive evidence yet’
That is why we had some difficulties posting to the Synergy last week!
