If they flood the web site, they will get that 429 message so that they will not be able to continue to flood your site. Just like it did for him. The server isn’t giving him that message because you “authorized” him. It is keeping him from accessing the site because he is being malicious. If they flood the web site all day long it will not affect your server because they will get only the 429 page.
You are already protected.
Often people get that 429 error when they should not, and they are unable to access their site. That is a problem. You have no problem. You are unable to access your site if you try to take it down. That is what you want.
my apology to you, but i am not, you was clear enough at the part below:
And i can say absolutely you know better than me, i always wanted to connect my website to cloudflare even before this event so i took the advantage of this post to ask again.
Again am sorry, and i do appreciate you guys effort in helping me, am fully aware of the fact that cloudflare will not help.
i fully understand what you saying, you mean the flood of requests cannot damage the data on the server !!
ok, sounds well but what am gonna do with a server not affected if somebody can shutdown my website for 10 minutes 5 times a day with a small piece of software ?
what i need to know here, what is the best method to have all these requests without having 429 page ? i just wanna keep the website running smoothly under this scenario.
because the users cares about no protected server but about getting to the website and see the content.
You can’t imagine how stupid i am
For real am not a programmer this is why the people must talk to me in simple language.
The part above is clear.
Thanks a lot for your time sir.
