From d145e320fa51ac26dc4b6a70d312a8cdf8740f03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Mitchell Krog (Desktop)" Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 08:38:48 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update to Readme --- README.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index a24009b09..cfd29bb7f 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -161,6 +161,11 @@ The configuration instructions below !!!! - `limit_conn_zone $ratelimited zone=addr:50m;` +PLEASE NOTE: The above rate limiting rules are for the DDOS filter, it may seem like high values to you +but for wordpress sites with plugins and lots of images, it's not. This will not limit any real visitor to +your Wordpress sites but it will immediately rate limit any aggressive bot. Remember that other bots and user +agents are rate limited using a different rate limiting rule at the bottom of the globalblacklist.conf file. + ####Third Step: Open a site config file for Nginx (just one for now) and add the following lines