Just as an aside
Does Varnishing as much content as you can protect you from DDOS?
It would cover your app backend but is Varnished content on Heroku
so heavily cached that it is impenitrable?
I assume it must be, since a Reddit attack is as bad as DDOS, and
Vanish is what people recommend f
Could CloudFlare be helpful here?
https://www.cloudflare.com/home.html
http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/27/cloudflare-wants-to-be-a-cdn-for-the-masses-and-takes-five-minutes-to-set-up/
On Sep 29, 5:35 am, Alex Killough wrote:
> So I feel I've either got a DDOS underway on one of my sites or a
>
Alternatively, try using
http://datagraph.rubyforge.org/rack-throttle/
to throttle requests. (it's done per client IP I believe, so regular
visitors should get their normal requests fine, and repeated spammers
will be denied).
On Sep 29, 12:19 pm, Alex wrote:
> Could you write a rack middlewar
Could you write a rack middleware that blocks IPs/domains/url
patterns?
Rack is blazing fast (at least compared to the rest of your stack) so
it should help.
On Sep 29, 10:35 am, Alex Killough wrote:
> So I feel I've either got a DDOS underway on one of my sites or a
> malicious script sending
Well you can defo start with checking your logs on the command line.
In terms of blocking traffic though it's something that would have to
be done by Heroku. I know you could write some form of rack app as a
last resort to quickly shutdown connections but it's not going to be
ideal.
I know this wo
