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How to Protect Your Websites from HTTP(S) Flood

In this guide, you will get information on how to guard your website from HTTP(S) flood attacks with protection modes on Anti-DDoS Pro.

By default, your domain protected by the Anti-DDoS Pro instance uses the Normal HTTP flood protection mode. You can change the mode as you needed.

  1. Log on to the Anti-DDoS Pro console.
  2. Go to Protection > Setting > Web Attack Protection page, select Instance, and select Domain.
  3. Locate the HTTP Flood Protection area, click to select the defense mode.

Custom HTTP Flood Protection Rule

Anti-DDoS Pro also supports custom HTTP flood protection rules for you to customize precise HTTP flood defense rules. You can configure defense rules for specific URLs with this functionality.

Go to the Web Attack Protection page of your protected domain, locate the HTTP Flood Protection area, enable custom HTTP flood protection rules, and then click Settings to set custom defense rules for specific URLs.

Best Practice for HTTP Flood Protection Settings

The sequence of defense effects with these four HTTP flood protection modes is: Very High > High > Attack emergency > Normal. Meanwhile, the possibility of false positives with these four HTTP flood protection modes is Very High > High > Attack emergency > Normal.

And Attack emergency mode has relatively strict policies and can guard against more complex and sophisticated HTTP flood attacks. However, it may block a small part of normal requests.

Generally, we recommend that you use the Normal HTTP flood protection mode for your protected domain. This mode uses relative loose defense policies, and only IPs with large access frequency are blocked. We recommend that you switch to the Emergency attack mode or the High mode when the Normal mode fails to deliver satisfactory performance or the website is under severe HTTP flood attacks. Do not forget to switch back to the normal mode after the attack is over.

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