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Fighting off a DDoS

by Daniel Morrison

Harmony has been being hit by a DDoS attack this month, and Chris shares some of what we did to fight it over on the Harmony blog.

A graph showing low network traffic over a course of roughly two months before spiking for a three week preiod, then returning the the lower leve.

Though Harmony isn’t the biggest site we’ve scaled, it is unique in that it hosts many other websites. We can’t just take it down and change things on a whim. An attack is never fun, but we were able to pull through and end up with much better infrastructure.