The developer community voted Liquid Web as the Best DDoS Protection Hosting Provider in the first Web Developer Choice Awards. Over 1,000 developers voted, which results in an outcome based on real-world experiences rather than on an analyst or industry panel opinion.
Liquid Web received this recognition as cyberattacks increase in scale and sophistication. Reports indicate a continuing increase in the number of distributed denial-of-service incidents–attacks of which Cloudflare alone in the first quarter of 2025 blocked over 20 million (up 358 percent from the previous year), and which, in the case of Cloudflare, has almost tripled year-on-year. Such attacks, in general, compromise websites, interrupt transactions, and diminish trust from the clientele. Analysts predict that the cost of a single DDoS attack to organizations ranges from 200,000 to 500,000 and the downtime to as much as 6,000 per minute.
These numbers explain why developers placed value on providers with built-in protections that operate continuously rather than relying on third-party add-ons.
Liquid Web received votes for their multitude of layered defenses and active monitoring to mitigate disruption while maintaining performance. Developers who rely on hosting for mission-critical projects highlighted the importance of infrastructure-level protection that adapts quickly as attackers use automation and artificial intelligence to scale their efforts.
The award also shows how the hosting industry is undergoing a wider shift in evaluation. Transparency and authentic user trust now matter as much as performance benchmarks. The Web Developer Choice Awards wanted to capture this reality by verifying participants and validating that the votes reflected authentic satisfaction from working professionals who are active members of our community.
This award builds on Liquid Web’s previous 2025 award for Best Dedicated Hosting Provider. These awards are important because they reflect how developers today see reliability and resiliency as essential. As threats continue to accelerate, the developer community has made it clear that providers should no longer consider the ability to have a purely secure host a factor of safety, with security as an optional feature.
