Posted by Nu on 01/31/07 23:28

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?

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