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It depends on your hosting situation, but unless you're using a hosting plan with bandwidth allotments from like 1993, you definitely don't need to worry about

It depends on your hosting situation, but unless you're using a hosting plan with bandwidth allotments from like 1993, you definitely don't need to worry about that. My host gives me like 2TB of bandwidth per month for $10/mo, and even with an article with several images hitting the front-page of HN for a full day, I think I used less than 1/3 of that allotment. And unless you're doing something really... bizarre... no one is going to spend their resources to DDoS your personal blog :)

fragmede 4y ago
What's your barometer for "bizzare" though? The sad reality is that anyone running a website on the Internet these days is target for a DDoS, you only have to piss off the wrong somebody with 5 cents of sense and $50 of Bitcoin. Your personal website about birds you saw could get DDoSed by your neighbor who thinks you're lying about seeing more birds than him. To be clear, most sites will be unmolested and if it's a small personal site, just taking it down until the attacker gets bored is certainly one option. But if it's something business related you don't really have that option.
- coldpie 4y ago
  To be blunt, I don't think any of that is very likely.
  - anoonmoose 4y ago
    I wouldn't have either. Then, a week ago, a newly created Twitter account started following me, using my wife's first name and part of our address as the display name, and using a picture of our house as the profile picture. Look, I know that tweeting under my real name and owning a house in the US means that the amount of effort required to actually find all that stuff is pretty minimal...I didn't do anything much more bizarre than complain about Elon turning Twitter to shit, and it's a pretty good guess that that's what they were upset about since the account was only following me and Elon. People be wilding out there man.

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It depends on your hosting situation, but unless you're using a hosting plan with bandwidth allotments from like 1993, you definitely don't need to worry about

by coldpie 4y ago

fragmede 4y ago
What's your barometer for "bizzare" though? The sad reality is that anyone running a website on the Internet these days is target for a DDoS, you only have to piss off the wrong somebody with 5 cents of sense and $50 of Bitcoin. Your personal website about birds you saw could get DDoSed by your neighbor who thinks you're lying about seeing more birds than him. To be clear, most sites will be unmolested and if it's a small personal site, just taking it down until the attacker gets bored is certainly one option. But if it's something business related you don't really have that option.
- coldpie 4y ago
  To be blunt, I don't think any of that is very likely.
  - anoonmoose 4y ago
    I wouldn't have either. Then, a week ago, a newly created Twitter account started following me, using my wife's first name and part of our address as the display name, and using a picture of our house as the profile picture. Look, I know that tweeting under my real name and owning a house in the US means that the amount of effort required to actually find all that stuff is pretty minimal...I didn't do anything much more bizarre than complain about Elon turning Twitter to shit, and it's a pretty good guess that that's what they were upset about since the account was only following me and Elon. People be wilding out there man.