A DDoS attack — Distributed Denial of Service — floods your server with junk traffic from many sources at once, trying to knock it offline. DDoS-protected hosting is infrastructure built to absorb and filter that flood so your site stays up. Here's what that really involves.
How an attack works
Instead of one attacker, thousands of compromised devices send requests to your server simultaneously. The goal isn't to break in — it's to exhaust your bandwidth, connections or CPU until legitimate visitors can't get through.
What real protection looks like
- Network capacity. Enough bandwidth headroom to absorb volumetric floods (Layer 3/4).
- Traffic scrubbing. Malicious packets are filtered out before they reach your server.
- Application-layer defence. Protection against smarter attacks that mimic real users (Layer 7), often via a web application firewall.
- Always-on monitoring. Detection and mitigation that kicks in automatically, not after you notice downtime.
Do you need it?
If downtime costs you money or reputation — an e-commerce store, a SaaS app, a busy community, a site that's been targeted before — hardened hosting is worth it. For a small brochure site with no enemies, standard hosting with a CDN in front is often enough.
Getting it
Our DDoS-Protected Hosting includes always-on mitigation, scrubbing and a web application firewall, starting at $19.99/month. For a general primer on staying online, pair it with a resilient DNS setup and off-site backups.