Hi, guys,
I need your opinion.
I have VPS and on it SMF forum. 2 weeks ago, multiple IPs tried to get into members' accounts in same time. So I banned some of them. So all that ips started getting banned messages. And then I installed iptables.
Last week I moved to different host. Yesterday, multiple IPs (proxies) tried to get in again and got banned messages again. But they totally overwhelmed VPS. It was out of memory. And VPS kept shutting down. There were like 700 entries in ban log in 6 hours.
Then httpd was shut down and didn't want to start. So I had to use cleanup command and fixweb command to fix it. But forum is kinda slower now like it was right before attack.
Is there any way how to stop it?
Thank you for the answer
I need your opinion.
I have VPS and on it SMF forum. 2 weeks ago, multiple IPs tried to get into members' accounts in same time. So I banned some of them. So all that ips started getting banned messages. And then I installed iptables.
Last week I moved to different host. Yesterday, multiple IPs (proxies) tried to get in again and got banned messages again. But they totally overwhelmed VPS. It was out of memory. And VPS kept shutting down. There were like 700 entries in ban log in 6 hours.
Then httpd was shut down and didn't want to start. So I had to use cleanup command and fixweb command to fix it. But forum is kinda slower now like it was right before attack.
Is there any way how to stop it?
Thank you for the answer