With nginx you can easily rate-limit connections, requests and downloads (which you can throttle also). Can also do this by GeoIP - country, etc. No need for e

With nginx you can easily rate-limit connections, requests and downloads (which you can throttle also). Can also do this by GeoIP - country, etc. No need for extra steps - this module shall be compiled and part of nginx-full package from nginx official PPA, if OP is using Ubuntu.