need some help. i'm flooded

ok guys. so i have a wp site with like 1000uv/day and it seems that one of my opponents started to flood me. the host suspend my site because it loads the cpu to 80%
here are some screenshots.

this ip was banned but after 4 hours another ip showed



what is the solution to this problem? is there an automatic script that can ban an ip if it access more then 5pages/sec or something like that?
need help asap.
thanks

 

Good morning,

I'd recommend that you try out mod_limitipconn.c; there are modules for Apache v1 and v2.

Let me know if that helps or if you need something stronger; folks like this can be defeated eventually, but it's a shame that instead of building up their own online community, they'd rather destroy yours.

 

I would suggest switching to Litespeed.

 

Especially since they're just banging on apache, I agree whole heartedly.

 

You could also look at tuning your prefork settings for apache, along with the timeouts. Another option is to block the source IPs via iptables.