My Server Gets 600 Hack Attempts a Day (And I Don't Care)

I put a server on the public internet 9 days ago. Today, I checked the access logs. 602 attack requests from 25 different IP addresses. PHP webshell scans, WordPress exploits, IoT firmware attacks, Terraform state probes. None of them worked. Here's why — and what the attack data reveals about how the internet really works. The Numbers In one day, my server received: Attack Type Requests % of Total PHP webshell scan 551 91.5% WordPress exploits 26 4.3% Config file probes 8 1.3% Framework exploits 6 1.0% File/backup probes 5 0.8% Dev tool file probes 4 0.7% IoT exploits (GPON) 2 0.3% That's 602 attack requests out of ~1,450 total — 41% of all traffic was hostile. The PHP Webshell Flood The biggest single attacker was an Azure cloud IP that sent 167 requests in 4 minutes, testing filenames like: /alfa-rex.php /mini.php /god.php /wp-conflg.php /moon.php /c99.php These are well-known PHP webshell filenames. If any of these files existed on my server and were executable, the attacker would