Mitigation
Immediate steps and lasting protection.
- Cost of a DDoS Attack: How to Calculate Your Own
Work out the cost of a DDoS attack yourself: revenue per hour times downtime, plus staff time, cloud egress, SLA credits and wasted ads. Worked example included.
- Cloudflare DDoS Protection: Setup, Limits, Origin Lockdown
Cloudflare DDoS protection covers layers 3 to 7 on every plan, free included. How to set it up, lock down your origin IP and use Under Attack mode well.
- DDoS Attack: What to Do in the First Hour (8 Steps)
DDoS attack, what to do first: an 8-step response plan for the first hour, from calling your provider and edge rules to rate limits, evidence and reporting.
- Rate Limiting: nginx limit_req, fail2ban, Cloudflare Rules
Rate limiting caps requests per client and time window. Working nginx limit_req and fail2ban configs, Cloudflare free-plan limits and starting values.
- Report a DDoS Attack: Police, CERTs and Your Provider
How to report a DDoS attack: the evidence to save before logs rotate, who to contact (police, CERT, provider) and the 24/72-hour NIS2 reporting deadlines.