I need some kind of script that will stop a user submitting requests to my website for a certain amount of time if they try to submit more than 5 requests every 10 seconds, people have been abusing my website and it was taken off the server because it was creating too much load, the only way to get it back on is to protect it to stop these people making so many requests.
Website Protection
- Thread starter Gaverick
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what is a session and how do i make one?
You can't stop someone making a http request to your server unless your hosting provider blocks their IP - not much use if the traffic is coming from multiple IPs, i.e. a DDoS attack.
All a script can do is treat a request differently depending upon a set of rules - this will still require the server to process the request and decide what to do with it, so you're still going to be creating load in this case (and possibly more cpu usage than just serving a static html page, although not as much bandwidth).
All a script can do is treat a request differently depending upon a set of rules - this will still require the server to process the request and decide what to do with it, so you're still going to be creating load in this case (and possibly more cpu usage than just serving a static html page, although not as much bandwidth).
