I was slashdotted at the beginning of the year. Spent quite a bit of time at #1 for https://grepular.com/Abusing_HTTP_Status_Codes_to_Expose_Private_Information

I was slashdotted at the beginning of the year. Spent quite a bit of time at #1 for https://grepular.com/Abusing_HTTP_Status_Codes_to_Expose_Private_Information https://grepular.com/Abusing_HTTP_Status_Codes_to_Expose_Pri... I managed to have it up and running again in about half an hour by converting some content which didn't need to be dynamically generated for every request, into static content. Once things calmed down, I spent some time optimising it further and making lots of content static, which didn't need to be dynamically generated for every request. I'm glad I did, because I hit the #2 spot on Slashdot for most of a day this very weekend because of this article: https://grepular.com/Protecting_a_Laptop_from_Simple_and_Sophisticated_Attacks https://grepular.com/Protecting_a_Laptop_from_Simple_and_Sop... My lowly Linode VPS didn't even break a sweat this time.