Anton Aylward wrote:
On 13/01/2020 05:45, Per Jessen wrote:
Switching is not an option, the app does not come in any other implementation :-) I guess they could use php fastcgi, but I think they are happy with the system surviving even if clients can't be served.
Elsewhere, a similar problems was solved ...
The firewall did a round-robin direction of the requests to a number of small machines running the application front end. There was no sophisticated load balancing, feedback from the machines.
Sounds like an LVS system. Yes, such a setup is very useful.
The round-robin serving was enough. There were enough machines so that any DoS attack was lessened and programmatic attack only took out one machine.
I'll suggest to the customer they may want to rent many more machines from us :-) -- Per Jessen, Zürich (7.6°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - your free DNS host, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org