NikoCodey Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Hi.Recently, i have been experimenting with DDoS protected CDN's such as Cloudflare, Incapsula and other providers, however, none of them really offered me good layer 7 DDoS protection.However, after my friend founded this new company which runs on his servers, all DDoS attacks have been mitigated immediately.This tutorial will explain how you can get free DDoS protection from AthenaLayer.com and how to set it up.1. First, go in your AdminCP (IPB 4.x.x), and go to Security Settings, then you need to select "Show AdminCP link to Administrators" and "Trust IP addresses provided by proxies", since the CDN changes your IP everytime it refreshes, it's necessary to select this.2. Register for a free account in athenalayer.com, add your website and verify it, there are instructions in the control panel how to do so.3. Add your website and wait for DNS to update, also make sure you don't have any "open" CNAMES or A records which connects directly to your server.And that's it, you're now DDoS protected from any sorts of attacks - here's my site so you can see the preview.If you'd like DDoS protected host, then i'd recommend nalhost.com which is owned by the same person and will be able to help you against any attacks.Thanks. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
datablitz Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 nice thanks 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shnepsey Posted November 15, 2015 Share Posted November 15, 2015 Did anyone here try it ? does it really work as a DDOS protection ? Thank you for sharing tho. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikoCodey Posted November 15, 2015 Author Share Posted November 15, 2015 I use it on my several websites such as Rile5.pw which suffered over 100 hours of downtime. I don't know what i'd do without this. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wurm123 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 i go to test this. thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikoCodey Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share Posted December 13, 2015 i go to test this. thanksNo problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady C Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 I never had an issue with cloudflares ddos protection. just keep your settings on high and when feeling the site becomes slow put in under i'm under attack! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikoCodey Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share Posted December 13, 2015 I never had an issue with cloudflares ddos protection. just keep your settings on high and when feeling the site becomes slow put in under i'm under attack!I did that, but when someone really wants to get you down, they'll get through the Cloudflare browser integrity check by using IRC bots (real people), sending them with real browsers to a domain, which essentially bypasses Cloudflare. Athena Layers blocks these malicious IP's and doesn't let them through. Detailed explanation here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhA9PAfkJ10Cloudflare might be able to protect against DoS attacks and small DDoS attacks where they are fake bots with fake browsers sending packets, but this. no. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technologx Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 Just to let everyone know this don't work with free domain that are like example.fulba.com Quote <p style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="newforumsig2a8b7.png" class="ipsImage" src="https://technologx.com/applications/core/interface/imageproxy/imageproxy.php?img=http://upicme.technologx.com/images/newforumsig2a8b7.png&key=39dac093df23a0bac3413cace79b784bbd9c7b204556aeca70f3d3b64bd6f656"> </p> Be sure to click the green up arrow if I've helped you any or you like my uploads. Thank you it really helps! Also if possible if you download my files please review them thank you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swagking Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 Sign up button currently having some issues - http://athenalayer.com/control-panel/finish.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikoCodey Posted January 4, 2016 Author Share Posted January 4, 2016 Sign up button currently having some issues - http://athenalayer.com/control-panel/finish.phpThanks, i'll inform the CEO asap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikoCodey Posted January 5, 2016 Author Share Posted January 5, 2016 On 1/3/2016 at 9:54 AM, DarKMaSk said: In addition with the info from Technologx, I would like to add one more thing, the free version of athenalayer doesn't support 'https' sites, that means a site with SSL activated cannot enjoy the FREE service of athenalayer.com. My site is on SSL. This is because SSL requires a dedicated IP address and Athena Layer has to charge. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrAlicard Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 I have not heard about it, but I will try it. Thank you your tutorial. :) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoSiCkY Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 they cant even fully protect their own site what chance they got of securing urs. Stick to cloudflare this bloke works for them and is prob on commission 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awsomehackz21 Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 I'm actually using a combination of AthenaLayer and Incapsula for my site. CDN + DDOS Benefits and it helped loading times by alot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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