What’s the history of DDOS? What does it do?
In the past DDOS attacks only flooded your uplink “pipe”.  These attacks were about overwhelming the connection and taking your website offline. In response to these attacks there were managed hosting solutions and software protection created to help defend against these attacks.

There was a change about 6 years ago when there was a huge shift in DDoS thanks attacks due to innovation on the part of the offenders/attackers. They have better knowledge, better tools, know how to target and are constantly expanding. Nowadays the so-called application-layer is the most used target for attacks, specifically  for web services.

On premise DDOS protection will defend your websites and servers against multi-layer attacks. For instance layer 3 and layer 7 attacks. This means that not just apache will be protected against floods but also other application and ports. Why is this needed? Because nowadays the attacks are more or less shifting to other applications on your server to flood your server.

In order to effectively defend against these attacks and protect the network from downtime, you need broad, flexible solutions designed specifically to protect against these attacks. This means layered defenses from hardware anti-ddos solutions. Relying exclusively on a cloud-based DDoS managed service will leave your website vulnerable to application-layer, state exhaustion and multi-vector attacks.

It does not have to cost a lot. We for instance are specialized in GRE-based and on-premises protection. We offer a wide range of DDOS protection from just 15 euro per month and a total protection capacity of 800Gbps. You should always consider what it will cost you to be attacked and down for hours or days and compare it with suitable DDOS protection plans that will save you these damage costs, lost income and headache.