I've found that mod_evasive[1] works particularly well in these situation and helped us a lot dealing with it (though I'm not a sysadmin and I'm sure there are

I've found that mod_evasive[1] works particularly well in these situation and helped us a lot dealing with it (though I'm not a sysadmin and I'm sure there are better tools to deal with it). But for someone who is just a webmaster, I'd recommend using it for a quick dirty fix for such hassles. [1] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-protect-against-dos-and-ddos-with-mod_evasive-for-apache-on-centos-7 https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-prot...