content/web-server/rate-limiting-with-nginx.md

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Title: "Rate Limiting with nginx" Date: 2016-08-11 02:26:42 Categories: [web server] tags: [nginx] Slug: rate-limiting-with-nginx

Authors: sedlav

In this tutorial HowToForge explains how to use the nginx HttpLimitReqModule to limit the number of requests for a given session.

nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, a mail proxy server, and a generic TCP/UDP proxy server, originally written by Igor Sysoev.

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