A Distributed Denial of Service attack involves sending huge amounts of traffic from multiple sources to your website / application to cause your server to fall over.
Essentially, a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack involves somebody intentially overloading your website with traffic which causes the server to shut down.
A website is typically designed for 10, even 100 users per second, but a DDoS attack can be in the region of thousands or even ten’s of thousands of requests.
This takes up all of the server resources and causes everything to come to a grinding halt.
We can protect you in a number of ways, depending on whether we are integrating DDoS protection into your existing hosting infrastructure, or if you already host with us, in which case you will already be largely protected.
We’ll manage the process from start to finish, providing you with regular updates and a development site to view and approve ammends.
All of our servers have smart switches and routers that will automatically detect and limit access to individual ip’s. This is built into the core of our website hosting and application hosting solutions.
Secure Software
Our Website and Applications have securty built in to mitigate DDoS attacks at the software level. This is included as part of our Webmaster Service, alongside any Website Design project.
Content Delivery Networks add an entire layer above your hosting infrastructure. This allows cached traffic to be routed across thousands of different nodes, so that the origin server (your primary hosting account) is only accessed when needed, to access or update the database, for example.
Web Application Firewalls monitor and filter traffic between a website or an application and the internet.
Overall they work together with the rest of the security infrastructure to build a holistic defense against DDoS attacks.
We’re in it for the long haul, and we hope you are too! Security is important to us, so we’ve invested in making sure that your websites and applications are bulletproof.
Not only do we implement CDNs but our WAF is in the cloud, too so we process the rules before there is any connection to your server.
We employ several caching methods, both on the servers themselves and in the cloud via our CDN.
We’ll manage the whole hosting infrastructure for you, including integrations into third-party servers where necessary.
We receiving notifications if there is an ongoing attack on a server, which means we can deploy protective measures as soon as possible.
The following packages represent common cases for most of our clients, but we’ll always go through your needs on a case by case basis.
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£10/m+VAT
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£25/m+VAT
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£250/mo+VAT
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This tool is for clients who are using a CDN with our Managed Web Hosting and Application Hosting Plans and / or Webmaster Clients.
If you are in any doubt, or you would like to add this functionality to your website, please get in touch.