Stopping a DDoS Attack

A DDoS attack isn’t the same thing as hacking, although the two can be linked; the perpetrators aren’t attempting to access your website’s files or admin, but instead, they cause it to crash or become vulnerable due to the volume of requests. In some cases, this will be followed by attempts to hack the site when it’s vulnerable, but in the majority of cases, the aim is simply to make the site stop working.
It may sound as if there isn’t any way to avoid a DDoS attack: after all, if someone decides to flood your site with requests, there isn’t much you can do to stop them.
After seeing the increase, it was a matter of checking the server logs to investigate what was happening. These types of things can easily spin out of control. The past 7 days showed that the site’s /account/ page had been requested 5,110,00 times and produced a total of 66 GB of traffic. That is from a site that typically generates a little over 1 GB of total data in an entire month. So instantly we knew something was up.
Analyzing the top 10 client IPS for the last 7 days to the site instantly showed some suspicious activity. A majority of them had over 10,000 requests, and there were quite a few. Remember, this is a small site which only should be getting a couple thousand requests total per month.
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