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I use Heroku as my hosting solution. So, if some bad man attacks my site with DDoS, what should I do?

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serverfault.... – KevinDTimm Apr 26 '10 at 12:01
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Heroku is a "platform as a service," not a typical hosting solution. A denial of service attack against your site would be an attack against the entire platform. Heroku takes security seriously and presumably has sophisticated measures in place to detect and mitigate DDOS attacks.

Sit back and relax. On a platform like Heroku, your job is to develop and maintain the security of your own code, while leaving management of the platform to the provider.

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Make regular back-ups :)

Your host should guard against this already, but there are scripts and tools that you can install that supposedly work.. http://www.blockdos.net/

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BlockDOS won't help if the traffic is saturating your internet connection. All that is is an IDS and firewall. To stop a DDoS affecting your system, you need to blackhole the traffic higher up in the routing. – Tom O'Connor Apr 26 '10 at 13:25
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