Most developers deploy servers. Few think about what happens when someone tries to take them down. I did. I built ShieldDaemon — a tool that watches every request hitting your server, learns your normal traffic patterns, and automatically blocks attackers the moment something looks wrong. No manual intervention. No hardcoded rules. Just a daemon that never sleeps. Here is exactly how I built it. What Is This Project About? Imagine you run an online shop. Everything is working fine until one day thousands of fake requests flood your website all at once. Your server crashes. Real customers can't access your shop. You lose money and trust. That is called a DDoS attack — Distributed Denial of Service. It is one of the most common ways attackers take down websites. In this project I built ShieldDaemon — a tool that watches every request coming into a server, learns what normal traffic looks like, and automatically blocks any IP address that starts behaving suspiciously. The best part?…