How to enable DDoS protection?

Question

DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service Attacks) are generally blocked on a server level right?

Is there a way to block it on a PHP level, or at least reduce it?

Answer 1

Anti DDOS steps:

• The very first important thing is to identify the ddos attack first. Identifying the ddos attack more early means more better for your server .
• Getting better bandwidth available for your server. Always keep more than enough bandwidth which is required to for your server. This won’t prevent DDOS attack but it will take longer time. By which you will get some extra time to act.
• If you own your own web server then you can defend at network parameter by rate limit your router, add filters to drop packets to different sources of attacks, time out half opened connections more aggressively. Also set lower SYN, ICMP and UDP flood drop thresholds.
• If you don’t have much idea about these things, then go and contact your hosting providers quickly. They can try their best prevent the DDOS attacks.
• There are also Special DDOS mitigation service provided by Cloudflare and many other companies. By which they can help you to prevent the DDOS attacks. Also many companies offer cheap ddos protection and dos protection.