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0 pointsmarginalia_nu4y ago0 comments

Usually means they have large ongoing problems with aggressive bots.

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Or they using it as lazy approach to fix long-dos attacks by competitors.

What is the non-lazy alternative that stops a botnet DDOS without affecting regular visitors?

Long-dos is usually not a botnet but a single or a few attackers requesting a resource heavy page on and on or using a technic like slowloris. If you are using WordPress I am sure you find some signs in your log.

The solution other than with ddos is to make the app better. Caching, access control and limiting, etc.

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herbst4y ago

Or they using it as lazy approach to fix long-dos attacks by competitors.

marginalia_nuOP4y ago

What is the non-lazy alternative that stops a botnet DDOS without affecting regular visitors?

herbst4y ago

The solution other than with ddos is to make the app better. Caching, access control and limiting, etc.

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