This plugin safeguards your website from Layer 7 DDoS attacks and IP stressors by utilizing a rate limiting feature.
As of April 2026, Rate Limit Guard is a WordPress ddos plugin with 70 active installations and a 3/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 2.9K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0.1+ and PHP 7.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2024. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: Cloudflare.
This plugin allows you to have a simple rate limit option to protect the site against DDoS or brute force and IP stresser attacks. It is suitable to Prevent against IP Stresser and booter scripts that want to increase the consumption of your site’s resources with a “Slow” method.
An IP stresser is an online tool that is used to attack a server or a website by overwhelming its resources with a flood of Internet traffic. It is often used to test the strength and resilience of a server or a network, but it can also be used maliciously to bring down a website or a service by denying legitimate users access.
IP stressers are often used by hackers to launch attacks on websites, but they can also be used by legitimate businesses and organizations to test t…
| WordPress | 4.0.1+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5 |
| PHP | 7.0+ required |
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