Rate limiting is a foundational tactic in the ongoing fight against bot abuse, API spamming, and denial-of-service attacks. This guide dives deep into two popular approaches used on Apache and NGINX-based web servers: mod_security for Apache and ngx_http_limit_req_module for NGINX …
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