Proxying servers and caching accelerators such as Varnish, nginx, and Squid have been recommended[7] to mitigate this particular kind of attack.

In addition, certain servers are more resilient to the attack by way of their design, including Hiawatha,[8] IIS, lighttpd, Cherokee, and Cisco CSS[citation needed].

[10] Other mitigating techniques involve setting up reverse proxies, firewalls, load balancers or content switches.

[12] The belief was that flooding DDoS attacks would affect internet access for the government and protesters equally, due to the significant bandwidth they can consume.

[14] A variant of this attack was used by spam network River City Media to force Gmail servers to send thousands of messages in bulk, by opening thousands of connections to the Gmail API with message sending requests, then completing them all at once.