How to protect your site from DDOS attack?

[seomusic]

How to protect your site from DDOS attack? Somebody suggested to use cloudflare but aside from cloudflare what are other possible solution to block the attack ?

 

[cash202]

Hardened server.

 

[kuzmanin]

Fail2ban iptables service on linux

 

[Roparadise]

What does a a ddos cause a drain on the most,besides bandwidth?

 

[Raffy]

Cloudflare offers a free CDN with some protection. No idea how effective it is though.

 

[Roparadise]

Would about using 2800Mhz ram, with part of it set aside for the actual website in a ramdisk configuration,along with Server OS being located in a ssd raid 0 config?

 

[The Scarlet Pimp]

would an anti-hammer script help? this stops people hitting your site over and over.
http://corz.org/serv/tools/anti-hammer/

 

[WPRipper]

Cloudflare offers a free CDN with some protection. No idea how effective it is though.

Yeah thats the easiest solution.