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How to Get FREE DDOS Protection for your Websites

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Denial of Service attack (DoS attack) or Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a website unavailable to its intended users. It generally carried out to temporarily or indefinitely interrupt or suspend services of a host connected to the Internet.

According to a recent report, DDOS attack are on the rise. The bad news is DDOS prevention service are very expensive.

If you have websites & it is quite popular, you may already experience or may experience this kind of attack sometimes in the future.

There are 2 ways to get it for free.

Sign up for Cloudflare. They manage to stop 100Gbps attack to Spamhous in March 2013.
Sign up for LiteSpeed Anti-DDoS Proxy Service.

If you find another FREE anti-DDOS service. kindly leave it in the comment area.

How to Check mod_rewrite Module in Apache/LiteSpeed is Loaded

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Apache, cPanel/WHM, Linux Server, LiteSpeed

Code, mod_rewrite

To check if mod_rewrite Module is loaded in Apache/LiteSpeed follow the following steps

1. For system with cPanel, log to SSH in issue the following commands

/usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -D DUMP_MODULES | grep rewrite

If it return the following, then mod_rewrite is loaded

Syntax OK
rewrite_module (static)

2. For system with no cPanel, check “httpd.conf” file. If the following is in the file then it should be loaded.

LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/apache2/mod_rewrite.so