girldevelopit / gdi-website

This is the official repository for the Girl Develop It website.
https://girldevelopit.com
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Adding Rack::Attack for DDoS defense #634

Closed kstack7 closed 6 years ago

kstack7 commented 6 years ago

I've noticed some DDoS attempts on the GDI website in the form of wp-login spamming. We currently and successfully redirect all the requests, but the ongoing attempts can slow down the site. Rack Attack will ban IPs that spam the website for ~5 min if attempted more than 3 times. I'll be monitoring to see if this is enough time or if we should up the ban length. 👍

DBNess commented 6 years ago

🤗 @kstack7, you rule

kstack7 commented 6 years ago

@DBNess ❤️