Ivan, Author at Blog WEDOS

September 19, 2026September 19, 2026

Behind the scenes of WEDOS Global Protection: what it takes to build a European shield against DDoS attacks

Most of our customers do not even know that they have WEDOS Global Protection enabled. They only see a website that is running quietly and does not even notice the attacks. But only a few hours earlier, it may have been a problematic website that was overloading the server and affecting other customers. Within five minutes, our support team redirected the traffic from the server to more than one hundred anycast reverse proxies, which immediately started filtering the traffic. So what is happening under the hood? There is surprisingly a lot of technology behind it. Let us take a closer look.

September 15, 2026September 15, 2026

AI Bots Are Changing. And We Have to Change With Them.

AI services today do not send only one type of bot to websites. The same provider can run a crawler for collecting data, a bot for AI search, and a client that opens a page directly because a user asked for it. This is where the internet is starting to change.

September 14, 2026September 14, 2026

WordPress 7.1 Sitemap Bug: Why Google Search Console Reports HTTP 404

In recent days, we have encountered several cases where Google Search Console rejected a WordPress sitemap with an HTTP 404 error, even though the /wp-sitemap.xml address appeared to display correctly in a regular web browser.

May 5, 2026May 5, 2026

One day with wp-login.php: 4.3 million blocked requests in 24 hours

wp-login.php is one of the best-known files in WordPress. It is normally used to log in to the administration, so it has long been a popular target for brute force attacks. Let us look at data from WEDOS Global Protection logs.

April 20, 2026April 21, 2026

From detection to deployment – How a new security rule is created in WEDOS Global Protection

Since the middle of last year, we have been working on a new infrastructure for the WEDOS Global Protection (WGP) service. The goal was to build a solution that is more robust, faster, easier to maintain, and capable of deploying more advanced detection mechanisms.

March 11, 2024March 12, 2024

Dispatching First Servers with ARM CPU

In February, we launched the global WEDOS ARM expansion campaign. We approached nearly 2000 datacenters, IXPs and major ISPs with the request to “densify” our WEDOS Global infrastructure.

December 25, 2023December 30, 2023

WEDOS Global even faster in Finland with the launch of IXP Netnode in Helsinki

WEDOS Global, our global infrastructure providing unrivalled speed and reliability in Europe for your websites and applications, has just taken another big step forward. After a successful connection to Netnod, one of the leading Internet nodes in Northern Europe, we have now extended our network to Helsinki (Finland), thanks to a new connection to Netnod’s IXP (Internet Exchange Point).

November 25, 2023December 1, 2023

We tested our new L7 DDoS attack protection on ourselves

As awareness of WEDOS Global spreads and more and more new customers who have a problem with DDoS attacks come to us, the more frustrated the attackers become. This leads to more intense attacks on our website and infrastructure. Sometimes they try really hard, earning us valuable data and experience 🙂 .

November 20, 2023November 21, 2023

WAF report from WEDOS Global Protection for October 2023

In October, we mainly tuned the content caching. We have made great progress, especially with WordPress sites. We can return any static content in thousandths of seconds after receiving a request from the user, while checking if it is up-to-date in units of seconds up to 60 seconds (depending on the tariff). The average site on WEDOS Global Protection has increased in speed by approximately 48%.

November 15, 2023November 21, 2023

WEDOS Global joins VIX in Vienna: Better connectivity in Austria

One of the key steps in our efforts to improve connectivity in Austria is our recent connection to the Vienna Internet Exchange Point (IXP), known as VIX. This connection was made via VIX2, located at the Interxion Data Center in Vienna.