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Bandwidth Raping Protection?
| Posted by Lordbug, 11-29-2007, 11:26 AM |
| So I recently had an attack from users whom used www.gigaloader.com to make me exceed my monthly bandwidth limitations.
Any recommendations on to stop attacks such as these.
Just for information my site an Invision Power Board forum.
Things that I have done so far is, ( Place index/htacces protection in all my directories so that they cannot easily obtain a list of images.
I enabled hotlink protection via cpanel for all images.
I also emailed the admin at gigaloader.com and they blacklisted my website from being abused on their website.
Next im going to remove the option to upload avatars, to not only help with this but also since I'm loading less images from my forum it should perform faster.
Any other recommendations? I had one friend tell me there is an apache module that automatically bans an ip if exceeds x ammount of bandwidth in a particular time. Can anyone tell me about this more?
Thanks for the help!
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| Posted by WebHostingNeeds, 11-29-2007, 12:32 PM |
| I think module like mod_cband or mod_evasive. Can only done if you are on dedicated/vps.
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| Posted by Darvil, 11-29-2007, 02:19 PM |
| one thing you can do is to limit the # of connections to your server PER IP and also put some limit on such as if anyone loads a file that is 200k or bigger, the BW becomes limited to say 50k
But of course you'll need to be on a dedicated or a vps.. the admin on shared hosting will probably not go that much for you.
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| Posted by hbhb, 11-29-2007, 09:15 PM |
| how can i do that?
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