DDoS Attacks - Need help!

My site www.rapidlinks.co.uk was on shared hosting, it was fine, VPS, it was fine. 5 days ago I moved to a dedicated server, and since yesterday I have been facing large ddos attacks.

Is there any way to stop these? I am paying more for the dedicated now and experiencing more downtime :|
I think they keep changing the IP's so IP banning doesn't help.

 

Hi,

there is a apache module called mod-dos evasive which when installed can can stop dos-evasive to an extend.
We can install and configure the same at $50 for you.

 

get a firewall.

Use either smoothwall or vyatta. Both are FREE!! Both can be configured to immediately drop all DDos attacks.

 

Try APF + Ddos Deflate combination it will help you.

 

Not too sure how to install APF, but I have installed DDoS Deflate for now Thanks.

I will look into APF later today and try and install it.

 

Please follow this link http://www.moneyplaybook.com/dos-protection-via-apf-bfd-ddos-and-rootkit/

 

i'm curious how you are determining that it's a DDoS ?

 

Tearabite, large packets sent to you again and again, which cause a service to fail (like apache)..

@Topic, APF + Ddos Deflate combination will be the solution, as Pathan said.

 

Would you like a sysadmin?

btw that site doesn't look large enough to even need a dedicated server.

 

you need .. apf + csf + mod_esasive + DOS-Deflate ..completed!
example ddos.conf ;

FREQ=1
NO_OF_CONNECTIONS=50
APF_BAN=1
KILL=1
EMAIL_TO=”root”
BAN_PERIOD=600

 

dedicated server is better than shared hosting, in such a way that, you can secure the server yourself or have someone to help you.

If you're in a shared hosting, once a shared site has been hacked, then the server is rooted, he can go through the directories and your site is affected..

 

mod_evasive works well...easy to install and configure too. Start with that for sure.

Are you running any kernel based firewalls? Normally you can create connection limits per IP for incoming traffic which will help stop ddos attacks.