Drupal DDoS Resilience Toolkit
Drupal DDoS Resilience Toolkit is a set of tools and configurations designed to harden Drupal sites against distributed denial-of-service attacks. It packages rate-limiting rules, request filtering, and monitoring hooks into a reusable toolkit that can be dropped into an existing Drupal deployment. The goal is to give site operators a practical starting point instead of scrambling during an incident.
DDoS mitigation for CMS-backed sites is often an afterthought until traffic spikes expose weaknesses. Drupal's bootstrap is heavier than a static page, which makes unchecked request floods particularly damaging. This toolkit addresses that by providing layered defenses: upstream filtering rules (for reverse proxies or CDN edge), application-level throttling, and visibility into anomalous traffic patterns so you can act before the site goes down. View Code
Technical takeaway: effective DDoS resilience is not a single firewall rule. It requires defense in depth across the stack. Filtering at the edge is fast but coarse; application-layer throttling is precise but expensive per request. Combining both layers, and adding observability to detect shifts in traffic shape, is what turns a toolkit from a checkbox into something that actually holds up under pressure.