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That's an entirely different kind of attack. If your server is being flooded with 20TB/s of traffic, there's nothing you can do on the box itself to fix things.
by joosters 8y ago
That's an entirely different kind of attack. If your server is being flooded with 20TB/s of traffic, there's nothing you can do on the box itself to fix things. Whatever you do, the legitimate requests won't be able to get through.
If however your DOS attack is an attacker making lower-volume CPU-expensive requests on your site, there's plenty of things to help mitigate the assault.
- cheschire 8y agoThat's the key difference between a DOS and a DDOS, yes. Since I can't load the OP article on this machine for some reason, I can't review the symptoms described. The title of the article does say DDOS, however, which is focused more on saturating bandwidth, not CPU.
- giancarlostoro 8y ago> The title of the article does say DDOS, however, which is focused more on saturating bandwidth, not CPU. Sadly DDoS has at times been used as a blanket term that also includes DoS.
- chias 8y agoThe headline and article itself do indeed (incorrectly) call it a DDOS attack. The attack itself was very much non-distributed, and involved a single malicious actor `curl`ing an expensive API endpoint in a loop.