PDudeP
Thanks for sharing, Luis. It's great to see that cPFence has been helping reduce the server load a bit on your new server.
wav3front You installed CPFence and server load got way down?
This means that attacks that now are blocked by CPFence used to create this kind of load?
This doesn't make much sense.
Yes, When cPFence (or any good IPDB) solution is in place, it blocks a large number of unwanted or malicious connections that would otherwise consume server resources. These attacks, whether brute force, DDoS, or even constant bot probing, create substantial load by tying up CPU, RAM, or network bandwidth. Luis’s results in the picture are actually quite minor. In some cases, the server load can be reduced even more significantly , it really depends on the specific server setup, the datacenter, or even the attack patterns. Results can vary from one environment to another.
If you're curious to see it live, run the following command to monitor blocked activity on a server protected by cPFence:
sudo tail -f /var/log/syslog | grep -E 'cPFence Blocked:|cPFence DDos Protection:'
You'll be amazed by how many attacks get blocked every minute, and how much pressure that takes off the server.
