Well, it's the PHP and database access via PHP that I think is causing most of the load.Breaking HTTP server overload on PHP level doesn't seem to make any sense, as webserver (Apache/nginx/etc) will handle all those requests anyway. The only way I could see is cutting malicious client (which is hammering by HTTP requests) on server level before it reaches to the webserver, or block/ban it just at the moment the server sees the client starts hammering/DDoSing.
Faced such cases a couple of times but not an expert there though.
Yeah, maybe not the best way to handle it, but I just need something that works 'well enough' for the occasional times I get massive hits on my forum... and it's not just from one IP. It seems like some sort of attack.
Statistics: Posted by Albert Wiersch — Mon Apr 28, 2025 2:56 pm