PHP Stress test on cPanel Server question

mesranet

• December 28, 2018 14:18

Dear All, Anybody out there having experience about PHPStress attack and how to prevent it ? The source about PHPstress you cn get from nightlionsecurity.com/blog/news/2014/phpstress-dos-attack-php-nginx-apache/ and just now i try to run PHPStress to one of my client website with Wordpress, amazing, the server load spike into 100 just in 30 second Any idea ? Please advice me. TQ

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  cPanelLauren

  • December 28, 2018 19:24

  Hello @mesranet The link you provided is for a PHP Stress test to determine how well your server performs when experiencing a denial of service attack, not for a specific attack. In most cases your firewall can be configured to mitigate this, but in some cases you may want to look at a CDN like CloudFlare for further assistance.

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  mesranet

  • December 28, 2018 19:34

  Hi, Any other opinion ? I also try to run PHPStress into domain with Cloudflare DNS, still cant prevent it Any advice ? TQ

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  cPanelLauren

  • December 28, 2018 20:04

  Hello, Again, phpstress that you're referencing is a stress test designed specifically to benchmark your application. It is not a form of attack. DoS attacks are usually fairly simple to mitigate by ip blocking, DDoS attacks are able to be mitigated using a combination of tools including CDN's, IP connection limiting within the software firewall, configuring your network router (hosting provider/datacenter would be responsible in most cases here), etc. What you would benefit most is researching ways to mitigate DDoS attacks.

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