Rate limiting feature is quintessentially used to prevent the server from getting DoS attack, DDoS attack or Slowloris attack. It limits the number of requests a particular IP address can send in a specified amount of time. The reverse proxy server that sits right in front of the user’s server(s) receives all the requests. When in use, it doesn’t let any IP address make requests more than the permitted number.
Let us consider a scenario where a specific IP address keeps sending requests to one of the servers of a user masked by the reverse proxy server:
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