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Originally Posted by shake
Are you using wordpress? I've had a lot of issues with people using xmlrpc amplification attacks (trying to guess passwords in bulk) but it crashes the server hard.
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I am using Wordpress. Right now it seems as if the attacks have subsided. I haven't received a response from my support ticket but maybe they are just getting sick of making daily responses about it, lol.
It could be that type of thing you are talking about. I check my error log in Cpanel and there is usually a solid 300 (only shows most recent 300) list of something checking for vulnerabilities and trying to log in.
It could be other sites on the same server like some suggest above, I'm not entirely sure. I really don't know much about server end stuff so I wouldn't even know what clues to look for.
Who did I piss off? I have no idea at all. While my website is practically so tiny it's insignificant, I imagine I pissed off someone on twitter. My main twitter account has 138K followers and gets a ton of traffic - unlike my website. Perhaps I blocked someone or didn't retweet them? This is the only thing I can honestly think of.
I'm going to sign up for the cloudflare later today and try out their free account hopefully that is enough protection otherwise I may sign up for the $20 / month deal they got.
Anyways I didn't want to bump this thread but wanted to answer a bit more and post some more things to let anyone know who was curious about how things were going.
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