My friend is an illustrator and she has just self-published two illustrated childrens books recently. After numerous rejections from publishers she took a big risk and published them with her own resources.
Now she is trying to get feedback from her target audience but not much of it is available since the books are fairly new and she does not have significant followers yet on instagram, facebook etc. And she has not discovered channels to reach out to her audience yet.
I am not her target audience(not kid aged 5-8 and not a parent of one) but I think they look really colorful and concepts-stories sound original. So when she asked me for an input, I told her I am not best candidate to give
We have been experiencing server problems since last week. Normally we have varnish on front so we thought we were immune to server resource problems etc, but since last wednesday we had occasional server lags, 500 errors etc. We have seen server resources is being consumed with requests, for some reason varnish was not serving static html files.
Our wordpress core and plugins is updated to latest versions and there were no configuration problems.
When we checked the logs we have seen that these 3 files have been taking huge amount of hits from bruteforce attacks:
xmlrpc.php
wp-cron.php
wp-login.php
And since our varnish conf is set to bypass requests coming to these files, bots ha