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This is a *VERY* restrictive setting. It will only allow someone to hit the same page on your blog site once every 10 seconds. I started with the default settings, but my site was going down from some brute force attack or some crawler, which was continuously hitting some page on my site. So, I kept lowering it down to this value. It’s been 3 days. So, far no downtime.
In this article, we have learnt you to setup a Linux VM in Windows Azure. We have also learnt how to install LAMP, configure and tune Apache, MySQL, WordPress. We have learnt some handy tricks to monitor the server, do regular housekeeping and also setup some automated job that can save you from waking up at 3 AM in order to recover your server.