https://systembash.com Technology and System Administration Fri, 22 Oct 2010 01:15:48 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.1 https://systembash.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/cropped-icon-dark-bg-32x32.png https://systembash.com 32 32 https://systembash.com/how-to-stop-an-apache-ddos-attack-with-mod_evasive/ https://systembash.com/how-to-stop-an-apache-ddos-attack-with-mod_evasive/#comments Fri, 22 Oct 2010 01:13:15 +0000 http://systembash.com/?p=797 lfd on server1.myhostname.com: High 5 minute load average alert - 89.14 My initial thought was that a site on my server was getting Slashdotted or encountering the Digg or Reddit effect. I run Chartbeat on several sites where this occasionally happens and I will usually get an alert from them first. A quick look at the Extended status page from Apache showed that I had a much different kind of problem.]]> https://systembash.com/how-to-stop-an-apache-ddos-attack-with-mod_evasive/feed/ 4