Nginx Anti-CC Attack Rate Limiting Best Practices: Should You Limit Connections or Requests First?
Discover the best practices for configuring Nginx to defend against CC attacks, combining connection limits, request rate limiting, burst handling, and whitelist exemptions.
Application-Layer Attacks Double in Two Years: Why Do Conventional CC Defense Configurations Keep Failing?
As application-layer attacks surge 104% in two years, traditional CC defenses relying on bandwidth monitoring fail against low-volume, high-cost requests that exhaust server CPU and memory.