Posted by Sanders Kaufman on 02/01/07 04:15

Petr Vileta wrote:
> Nu 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.
>>
>> Any ideas?
> You can use database for it, but it is a partial solution only.


Tee hee. The idea was to *prevent* that kind of activity.

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