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| LiteSpeed Web Server provides several features aimed at reducing and even eliminating the impact of HTTP-level Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. You can either use LSWS built-in features or third party ModSecurity rules such as Owasp, Atomicorp, Comodo and CloudLinux Imunify360. The following LSWS built-in configuration settings will help mitigate such attacks. | LiteSpeed Web Server provides several features aimed at reducing and even eliminating the impact of HTTP-level Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. You can either use LSWS built-in features or third party ModSecurity rules such as Owasp, Atomicorp, Comodo and CloudLinux Imunify360. The following LSWS built-in configuration settings will help mitigate such attacks. | ||
| + | ===== Enable reCAPTCHA feature ===== | ||
| + | One of the most effective methods to mitigate DoS and DDoS attacks is to enable the reCAPTCHA feature. reCAPTCHA is a free service from Google that helps protect websites from spam and abuse. A “CAPTCHA” is a turing test to tell human and bots apart. It is easy for humans to solve, but hard for bots and other malicious software to figure out. The reCAPTCHA feature is supported as of LSWS 5.4RC1 and later. Please see [[litespeed_wiki:config:recaptcha|these instructions]] to enable reCAPTCHA. | ||
| ===== Enable LiteSpeed Cache ===== | ===== Enable LiteSpeed Cache ===== | ||
| Enabling LiteSpeed Cache will increase the server's capacity to handle heavy traffic. | Enabling LiteSpeed Cache will increase the server's capacity to handle heavy traffic. | ||