How to minimise the impact of a DDOS attack on your Ruby on Rails app - CookiesHQ

Distributed-Denial-of-Service (DDoS)/ brute force attacks are a pain for every growing application. They will happen randomly, they will only last for a period of time, and they might not come back again for a long time. While you can’t necessarily escape them, you can take steps to reduce the impact a DDoS attack will have on your Ruby on Rails app.