https://sigtar.com/tags/website/ Recent content in Website on sigtar.com Hugo en-nz Sat, 08 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +1300 https://sigtar.com/2014/02/08/nginx-setup-as-reverse-proxy/ Sat, 08 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +1300 https://sigtar.com/2014/02/08/nginx-setup-as-reverse-proxy/ <p>Previously to take down this wordpress site all you needed to do was hold down F5 for about 20 seconds then the site would take about 5 mins to recover.</p> <p>There were a few factors causing this and quite a few different methods to solving the problem. Wordpress itself is run on php / apache, apache has an evasive mod which can block certain IPs depending on the defined abusive behavior (typical DDOS attack). Since i like to run a few websites behind a single IP i looked at fixing the issue closer to the perimeter&hellip;.</p>