Adding rate limits for too many consecutive requests in Cloudflare to protect our server.

Tiempo de lectura: < 1 minuto

This is the day we will learn how to add a rate limit from CloudFlare and thus protect our server.

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We will go to our CloudFlare account and select Security > Security rules.

Rate Limit Rules

Rate limit rules cloudflare

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p Now we are going to indicate the following data:

Rule name: we will indicate what we want in my case Rate limit.

When incoming request…

Field: URI Path

Operator: wildcard

/*

The expression will be in this form: (http.request.uri.path wildcard r"/*")

We select: IP

Request: 10

Period: 10 seconds

Then take action: Block

For duration: 10 seconds

Place at: First

We click on save and deploy

You are ready, we have now configured our rate limit and it will limit the access of too many consecutive requests.

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