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A .htaccess block doesn’t help if you’re trying to mitigate ddos attacks. Your server still has to expend quite a lot of resources to do htaccess checking vs an
by seanhunter 4y ago
A .htaccess block doesn’t help if you’re trying to mitigate ddos attacks. Your server still has to expend quite a lot of resources to do htaccess checking vs an ip firewall block is just one hashtable lookup at kernel level.
- _8j50 4y agoThey are giving a 403 which looks a lot like .htaccess. You can't do a whole lot of DDosing from a VPN IP either due to data cap and connection count limits per account.