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How to Identify and Stop a DDoS Attack on Your Server

How to Identify and Stop a DDoS Attack on Your Server

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A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack can happen to anyone, at any time. If you have a website running on a dedicated web server, it’s important to understand what a DDoS attack is, how to identify it, and what you need to do to stop and prevent it.

A distributed denial of service attack is an attack where a hacker uses a botnet to send an overwhelming number of HTTP requests to your web server in a very short period of time.

A botnet is a very large network of computers on the Internet that are infected with a virus that turns them into a relay for the hacker's software. Most of the computers on a botnet are regular computers that are infected with a virus, and the user doesn't even realize it.