[Koha] any recommended best practises for handling DoS / DDoS attacks on Koha?

[Indranil Das Gupta]

Hi all,

Last night I managed to DoS someone's Koha box accidentally, Of course
I called up to inform them that they need to restart the services. But
this set me thinking. Anyone running a crawler against the export
options in the OPAC can DoS down a stock Koha install running on a
VPS, by flooding it with too many requests too fast.

What are the usual recommended practises to limit / mitigate / handle
such cases?

thanks in advance

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