Ask Slashdot: Experience Handling DDoS Attacks On a Mid-Tier Site?

Posted by Unknown on Monday April 9, 2012 @11:55AM from the is-that-likes-windows-3.1 dept.

New submitter caboosesw writes "A customer of mine recently was hit by a quick and massive DDoS attack. As we were in the middle of things, we learned that there are proxy services of varying maturity to deal with these kinds of outbreaks from the small and mysterious (DOSArrest, ServerOrigin, BlackLotus, DDOSProtection, CloudFlare, etc.) to the large and mature (Prolexic, Verisign, etc.) Have you guys used any of these services? Especially on the lower price point that a small e-commerce (not pr0n or gambling) company could afford? Is a DDoS service really mandatory as Gartner now puts this type of service in the same tier as SEIM, firewalls, IPS, etc?"

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Change Apache to nginx by CoderExpert · 2012-04-09 11:55 · Score: 0, Offtopic

nginx performs much better than Apache. The latter one is really bloated, which shows extremely quickly when you're under DDOS. nginx is designed to be lightweight and fast while still offering many features. It was originally created for Rambler, a huge Russian search engine and portal when other web servers couldn't handle their needs. It truly kicks Apache's ass.