Welcome to The Dark Side

So I started with the most widely used script that I have written, my phpDDoS reject scripts.  This single script has taken the place of the 3 scripts prior. Simply wget the file into the directory that you want to have it run from, make it executable.  From there you can create a cron job [...]

So, for those of you that don’t know, I work for a hosting company. I enjoy what I do, and for all intents and purposes, I do a pretty good job at it. Recently, one of the sites we host, was getting hammered, hardcore.

To save on a very long, long, long winded story of how we battled these flooders, I am going to list what we did to get things working well again.