How to protect your site from DDOS attack?

seomusic

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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

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Hardened server.

 

kuzmanin

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Fail2ban iptables service on linux

 

Roparadise

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

 

Raffy

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

 

Roparadise

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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

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

 

WPRipper

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Raffy said:

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

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Yeah thats the easiest solution.