I'll have to look into the other solutions, but again, the one thing I liked about a properly functioning cfthrottle is the ability to
<cfif CFTHROTTLE.throttle AND CFTHROTTLE.totalHits gt 90> LAY OFF MY SITE YO! </cfif> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Matthew Woodward <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Alan Holden <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Thanks Matt! >> I was trying to avoid answers like Netscaler and fancy routers, etc. > > This might get you started at least: > http://serverfault.com/questions/125168/apache2-limit-simultaneous-requests-throttle-bandwidth-per-ip-client > But I'm pretty sure solutions like Nagios and others have this functionality > as well, and would run on any old box you have laying around. > I do get the "additional management" argument against this in the abstract, > but there's a huge upside to having a box to handle this sort of stuff as a > layer on top of everything as well. As always you have to balance the pros > and cons and do what works for your environment and staff, be that using > something at the OpenBD level, web server level, or using IDS or other > firewall-type tools. > -- > Matthew Woodward > [email protected] > http://blog.mattwoodward.com > identi.ca / Twitter: @mpwoodward > > Please do not send me proprietary file formats such as Word, PowerPoint, > etc. as attachments. > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > -- > official tag/function reference: http://openbd.org/manual/ > mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en > -- official tag/function reference: http://openbd.org/manual/ mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
