That's it, that's the event for me. I rushed to travel back home - over three hours of train ahead. Many people came to say hi, and I'm always a bit confused when people recognize me at live events, especially since I haven't attended in over a year. It's nice to be recognized, but I never quite get used to it. I'm not a big fan of events, but it's still nice to see your peers sometimes. I'm sorry I won't be joining the afterparty or staying to chat, but due to certain life situations, events just aren't as appealing to me anymore. There's a certain limit.

This year's local WordPress event was a success. Lots of talks about SysOps, DevOps, and AI - things I really enjoy. There was even an old-school "History of the Internet" kind of talk. Great job, organizers! See you next time!

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60% of users are on mobile, and only 12% of them use a browser. But the dead internet theory isn't becoming real. The internet is still a miracle, says Sami Häkkinen.

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BOTS ARE EVERYWHERE. 50% of all Internet traffic are bots, 66% of bot traffic is malicious, 43% targets SMBs. @robert

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The talks continue. Next up about The 7 security layers by @robert

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How does a typical DDoS on a WordPress installation happen?

- A search-based DDoS attack by bypassing the cache
- Attacker sends a large volume of unique search queries so responses never hit the cache example ?s=something-xyz
- Each request becomes a cache miss, forwarded from network edge
- WordPress runs PHP + WP_Query for every request often triggering expensive database work.
- Repeated heavy queries exhaust CPU, memory and DB capacity so the website slows and eventually crashes.
- This is an Application-layer (Layer 7) HTTP flood that mimics normal user traffic.
- Key signals to look out for: huge spikes of /?s= requests in the logs, very high query entropy, cache-hit rate collapses.

Cache-busting search queries force every request through the database, turning cheap HTTP calls into expensive backend load.

Great Sysops lightning talk by Tiia Ohtokallio!

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A really interesting lightning talk about attacks on WordPress. This is something I've been working to mitigate lately by building my own monitoring. Cloudflare, automatic access.log monitoring, and fail2ban are your friends. She paints a bigger picture in her talk.
https://wpsuomi.fi/schedule/war-on-wordpress-part-2/

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I'm here 👋

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