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> If request rates like these bring your site down, you have a serious software problem. This true only if the requests that are being sent to them aren't mali
by fragsworth 13y ago
> If request rates like these bring your site down, you have a serious software problem.
This true only if the requests that are being sent to them aren't malicious. A competent attacker without a botnet can try to find weak points in your application (clearing caches, writing data) and hit those places with just a few network connections.
- Udo 13y ago> A competent attacker without a botnet can try to find weak points in your application They can, but it this case it sounds unlikely. It's not feasible for a potential attacker to bother with this kind of analysis and then just send a few dozen requests per second. Instead they can just pay $5 to a Russian bot net operator who will inundate the site with hundreds of thousands of requests. Even from a single mid-range DSL line alone one could launch thousands of HTTP requests without breaking a sweat.