NGINX and NGINX Plus can be used as a valuable part of a DDoS mitigation solution, and NGINX Plus provides additional features for protecting against DDoS attacks and helping to identify when they are occurring.

Facebook Notes allows users to include <img> tags. Whenever a <img> tag is used, Facebook crawls the image from the external server and caches it. Facebook will only cache the image once however using random get parameters the cache can be by-passed and the feature can be abused to cause a huge HTTP GET flood.