{"id":8162943,"date":"2016-09-09T08:26:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T08:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/wordpress-blocks-ddos-but-still-crashes-server\/"},"modified":"2016-09-09T08:27:13","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T08:27:13","slug":"wordpress-blocks-ddos-but-still-crashes-server","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/wordpress-blocks-ddos-but-still-crashes-server\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress blocks DDos but still Crashes Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>When Wordfence detects a malicious attack from an ip (e.g. 55.555.555.55) that is making 100s of requests per minute, it triggers a block on that particular ip.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the problem is that the server resources are still taken up because Wordfence still has to serve the malicious ip a &#8220;WordPress warning page&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>1) Did anyone experience the same thing?<\/p>\n<p>2) Instead of serving the a warning page to the malicious user, is it possible to redirect the malicious user to a dummy url like: getlostyouddosandmaliciousattacker.com via htaccess so that server resources of loading the warning page 1000s of times aren&#8217;t used unnecessarily?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks in advance to anyone who answers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-8162943","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-ddos","topic-tag-htaccess","topic-tag-malicious","topic-tag-redirect"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/8162943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/8162943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8162948,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/8162943\/revisions\/8162948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8162943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}