SlapOS and NGINX Architecture for DDOS attacks
Vlad Andrei Poenaru, George Suciu, Cristian George Cernat, Gyorgy Todoran and Traian Lucian Militaru
Journal of Information Security Research, Vol. 14, No. 4, 2023.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6025/jisr/2023/14/4/ 96-100
Link: https://www.dline.info/jisr/fulltext/v14n4/jisrv14n4_2.pdf
Abstract:
The cloud is a new technology for the delivery of web applications. However, there is little literature on the impact of distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks on clouds and the performance of other types of attacks against a welldesigned cloud architecture. So, is cloud resilience enough to be a solution? Or will traditional web architectures with caching and reverse proxy always be better? This paper attempts to answer these questions by testing two architectures: SlapOS vs. architecture with nginx pre-configured and a few web servers behind the architecture against various types of DDOS attacks, including slowloris and RA flood attacks.