In web hosting, ensuring that your servers and websites are protected from DDoS attacks is critically important as attacks by cybercriminals continues to increase in both scope and volume. An alarming number of web hosting providers still lack adequate DDoS protection services, so it’s incumbent to ask what protection they do provide.
If you’ve purchased DDoS protection from your web hosting provider, do you know what levels of network, application or protocol layers that it protects you from? When they filter attacks, will they allow legitimate traffic to pass through unhindered? Will those services encapsulate DNS, UDP/TCP, SMTP, FTP, SSH and VoIP protections?
When a web hosting provider offers DDoS protection, what are your recommendations on what to ask about their protection?
If you’ve purchased DDoS protection from your web hosting provider, do you know what levels of network, application or protocol layers that it protects you from? When they filter attacks, will they allow legitimate traffic to pass through unhindered? Will those services encapsulate DNS, UDP/TCP, SMTP, FTP, SSH and VoIP protections?
When a web hosting provider offers DDoS protection, what are your recommendations on what to ask about their protection?