Protection from DDOS attacks ?

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  • Plugin Author tokkonopapa

    (@tokkonopapa)

    I guess your question means “DDoS protection on application layer in OSI model“.

    The answer is NO.

    Of course, this plugin can reduce the CPU usage against burst http requests with certain pattern because it blocks at the very beginning of WordPress process. But http flood by DDoS attack will be thousand or more http requests.
    So IMO, none of plugins can’t protect DDoS attack intrinsically.

    Thread Starter Pigo3934blog

    (@pigo3934blog)

    Thanks for the reply.

    But will this at least help some ?

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    Also, do you have any suggestions that I could implement to prevent DDoS attacks ?

    Plugin Author tokkonopapa

    (@tokkonopapa)

    Hi Pigo3934blog,

    > But will this at least help some ?

    Yes it will, but it depends on “how many requests per second”. For example, handreds of login attempts per second can be protected by this plugin. I think this level is not DDoS attack. But in case of this kind of large scale DDoS attack, protection based on application layer (layer 7) has no effect.

    > Also, do you have any suggestions that I could implement to prevent DDoS attacks ?

    Protection against DDoS attack needs combination of multi layered protection.

    I think cloudflare is suitable for you. Please refer to this.

    Plugin Author tokkonopapa

    (@tokkonopapa)

    I mistook.

    > For example, handreds of login attempts per second can be protected by this plugin.

    For example, handreds of login attempts per second can be blocked by this plugin.

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