Rate Limiting with Nginx

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jul 24, 2022 2:14 AM EDT
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Rate Limiting With nginx. This article explains how to use the nginx HttpLimitReqModule to limit the number of requests for a given session. This is useful, for example, if your site is hammered by a bot doing multiple requests per second and thus increasing your server load. With the HttpLimitReqModule you can define a rate limit, and if a visitor exceeds this rate, he will get a 503 error.

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