Nginx is great, and I absolutely love it. However, if you're under a true DDoS attack, the box is going to be completely bogged down at the kernel level way bef

Nginx is great, and I absolutely love it. However, if you're under a true DDoS attack, the box is going to be completely bogged down at the kernel level way before traffic is even close to being accepted and processed by NGINX. So this post is not very useful against a decent magnitude attack.