DDos Deflate seems to work very well for me, my server IP seems to be prone to small attacks (left over from the person that run the IP before me i think)

I had a site that moved to my server that had a hugh attack for 24 hours and I needed to compile a basic apache build (it broke lol) and raise the hard server limit and max apache process to 4000 to cope with this (still hit 4k) and change the ddos cron to 10 secs.

If you tweak apache to cope with the traffic make sure you have at least 100/100 unmetered port and at least 3GB of ram and a large swapfile.
Gavo Reviewed by Gavo on . (D)DoS-Deflate (Effective DoS Protection) I thought I'd recommend this. I've this installed - it works wonders. (Linux / BSD) I've tested a DoS against my server from another server, the IP was banned within 40 seconds. It's the most effective DoS protection I've used. Obviously large scale DDoS can't be prevented without hardware, but this terminates kiddies. Website: http://projects.medialayer.com/Some note points: - Make sure APF is installed! Rating: 5