Protect your website from DDOS attacks using apache modules ( mod_evasive )

Below mentioned apache module is quiet famous in terms of security

mod_evasive

mod_evasive works very efficiently, it takes one request to process and processes it very well. It prevents DDOS attacks from doing as much damage. This feature of mod_evasive enables it to handle the HTTP brute forceand Dos or DDos attack. This module detects attacks with three methods.

1. If so many requests come to a same page in a few times per second.
2. If any child process trying to make more than 50 concurrent requests.
3. If any IP still trying to make new requests when its temporarily blacklisted.

Find and un comment the line within your http.conf file to make it as

LoadModule evasive20_module modules/mod_evasive24.so