Someone using Tencent servers have been attacking my websites
Someone using Tencent servers have been attacking my websites, mostly from China, Singapore, Vietnam, but also the US and Brazil. I usually have around 1K people surfing my website at any given time. Occasionally my website https://www.gematrix.org is getting published in a blog about Gematria and numeric values and I get higher traffic organically. This attack was happening on multiple websites I own, not just this one, but the attack was made more brutally on Gematrix and at this website I investigated it. Lately, my website started crushing down. Did not worked properly. Responses were very slow. Looking a bit more deeply into it, I could see I have around 12K visitors at the same second in my website which caused the delay. Like thousands of thousands requests per seconds. I did two things: 1. One of them is what I call "scale better": I have improved the way I handle requests, improved the caching and improved the database querying, schema and access. Thanks god I...