>>> sender: "John Hinton" date: "Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 04:51:48PM -0400" <<<EOQ > Yesterday, I had a DoS attack on a php/mysql webpage which uses a lot of > resources. I have learned today, as a for instance, in the last hour, > about 3000 requests for that page were made by 610 different servers, > mostly from 'odd' places... China, Russia, Poland, Turkey... the usual > suspects from my experience. > > The bottom line is this... I hit server loads of 142 yesterday!!! And > the server never crashed! Yeah, it might as well have been dead, but it > wasn't. Yes, some things shut down temporarily... but the machine never > went down. This is a remote server, about an hour away.. It took about > 20 minutes for my mysqld stop command to execute, but with time it did > respond! I'm extremely impressed by this and just wanted to pass this > 'trivia' along. EL rocks! It rocks even better... :) I've had it hit 200+ load and it went smoother than others did on a load of 20... If was a webservers with *many* webpages hit by spiders. A good night to everyone (if it is night in your part of the world too :) ), Alex