XenForo.com is the subject of a rather large DoS attack right now. We are having the server moved behind a flood guard.
No, we have hardware protection we can enable to prevent the attack even reaching the server.Does this mean you are installing mod_security firewall ?
Who says that is being installed? Or was installed?mod security firewall is not a secret !!
So not necessarily multiple requests from the same ip address? But a flood of requests that would be abnormal for that site?Many web hosts have mod_security on shared servers to limit requests so the server stays online when there is a DDoS attack so hundreds or thousands of sites on the server do not lose service due to hacker attacks.
We could tell you, but then we'd have to kill you
It means that the server was suddenly hit with a massive burst of incoming junk traffic, the weight of which caused legitimate traffic to be flooded out.Can you explain inbound versus outbound bandwidth for those who are not server administrators Kier and what that spike means in terms easy to understand ??
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