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Denial-of-service (DoS) Prevention

A denial-of-service (DoS) attack is an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users. Denial-of-service attacks are typically carried out by flooding the target with more requests than it can handle. This can be done by sending large amounts of data to the target, or by sending requests from a large number of different sources. There are a number of different types of DoS attacks, including:

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Denial-of-service (DoS) attacks: A threat to your website

A denial-of-service (DoS) attack is an attempt to make a website or server unavailable to its intended users. DoS attacks achieve this by flooding the target with so much traffic that it is unable to handle legitimate requests. There are two main types of DoS attacks: Volume-based DoS attacks: These attacks send a large volume of traffic to the target, overwhelming its resources. Protocol-based DoS attacks: These attacks exploit vulnerabilities in the target’s protocols, such as HTTP or TCP.

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