NGINX open sources TCP load balancing

Re:NGINX open sources TCP load balancing by phildougherty on Monday April 20, 2015 @07:53PM (#9411539)

CloudFlare is build on top of OpenResty which is basically stock nginx with ngx_lua and a bunch of other modules built in. I would argue that if you want it to be, nginx can be much better at DDoS mitigation. You can use the modules limit_conn and limit_req to control how many connection individual IPs can make to your server for basic control.

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Re:NGINX open sources TCP load balancing by mkhpalm on Monday April 20, 2015 @11:02PM (#9412057)

You can add various things on top of nginx... but you can use stock haproxy to limit the number of connections by source IP.

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Re:NGINX open sources TCP load balancing by jhgg on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @12:29AM (#9412290)

This can also be achieved in nginx fairly easy:

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_limit_conn_module.htm...

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