What is a DDoS

A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted server, service or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of Internet traffic.

DDoS attacks achieve effectiveness by utilizing multiple compromised computer systems as sources of attack traffic. From a high level, a DDoS attack is like an unexpected traffic jam clogging up the highway, preventing regular traffic from arriving at its destination.

You can read more about what a DDoS attack is in this Cloudflare article.

Why do you need DDoS Protection?

The internet can be a scary place, which means that there could be bad actors out there attempting to take down your services (be that a website, or other service which we host) by overloading the server with invalid/fake traffic to attempt to block real users from being able to access your services.

DDoS mitigation refers to the process of successfully protecting a targeted server or network from a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. By utilizing our specially designed network equipment, we can mitigate the incoming threat.

In the modern age, DDoS Protection & Mitigation is required in order to keep your service up and operational for your end users. Thankfully, VoltHosting includes DDoS mitigation for free at no extra cost!

What DDoS protection does VoltHosting provide?

VoltHosting provides DDoS mitigation for every one of our services for no additional charge, it is on 24/7 by default. We utilise the GTT Corero Smartwall platform, which has a very large global filtering capacity.

VoltHosting also does not redirect on-attack! All traffic which flows into our network is filtered 24/7/365 and automatically inspected for malicious attack traffic. This means that our time to mitigate an attack is less than one second!

You can rest assured knowing your services are safe against DDoS attacks with VoltHosting!

Updated on: 14/11/2024