What to Do If a DDoS Comes or Antiflood for the Poor
summary
Explains practical defenses against DDoS and HTTP application-layer floods (L4 and above), comparing network-level attacks that saturate links with application-level HTTP floods (including amplification via WordPress XML-RPC). Describes why application floods can bring services down before links are full and outlines affordable anti-flood strategies that can be applied server-side when network-level measures are insufficient.
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