Posted by Rik on 01/31/07 23:50

Nu <no@spam.com> wrote:

> 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.

I'd say this would have to be done on server-level, anything in PHP would
still need/eat quite some resources.

May I suggest you ask this on alt.apache.configuration?
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Rik Wasmus

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