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 Posted by Nu on 02/01/07 02:10 
"Nu" <no@spam.com> wrote in message 
news:uE9wh.489905$Fi1.59287@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net... 
> I want to protect myself from if someone with a fast connection hammers my 
> site. It's not denial of service attacks, but offline downloaders (of 
course 
> that don't show they're offline downloaders in the useragent so I can't 
> filter them  by that). My main issue is my site is PHP so if they hammer 
it, 
> it gets all the PHP files executing and overwhelms the CPU. I'd like to be 
> able to after a certain amount of hits on my index.php per second, so just 
> refuse. 
> 
> I can't find how to do that.  Can it be done in PHP, htaccess, etc. 
> 
> Any ideas? 
> 
 
 
I've heard this called a "hit limit".
 
  
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