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How DDos Protection from a Web Host Can Save Your Business from Attack<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
One of the more dangerous attacks your site can suffer is called a DDoS attack. These types of attacks are enough of a concern that it\u2019s important to make sure any web host you sign up with has a strategy for dealing with them. This is because without proper\u00a0DDoS Protection Web Hosting Provider<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, your site is open game to anyone who has a reason to take your site offline for whatever reason.<\/span><\/div>\n

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What is a DDoS Attack?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
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This stands for \u201cDistributed Denial of Service<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u201d This type of attack occurs when either a single individual or a group of people try to take a site down and make it so that no one else can access that site. Essentially, this type of attack will interrupt or suspend web hosting services for a website.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are a few different ways to accomplish this, but one of the most common is to overload a server by making so many connections to the site that the server can\u2019t respond to any other real connections from traffic.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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How Do You Find Web Hosting That Stops It From Happening?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
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One initial thing you can do to find secure services to check to see if the web host even mentions DDoS attacks at all. Some web hosts don\u2019t even think they should be bothered with this and consider the responsibility for dealing with this type of attack to be all on you.<\/span><\/p>\n

But in general, it helps to look for services that give you free protection of around 100 GBPS or so. Many attacks will fit into this range so if you have this much protection you will be fine, we recommend you buy a DDoS Protected VPS<\/strong><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

DDoS Protected VPS<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n

You really don\u2019t want to be caught unprepared when it comes to a DDoS attack. If you want to find hosting that puts in extra effort to keep you safe from this type of attack, you should definitely\u00a0contact us<\/a><\/strong><\/span> at Host Namaste<\/strong> where we work extra hard to keep you safe.<\/span><\/p>\n

Things You Should Ask Your DDoS Protected Hosting Provider<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

In recent news<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong>, a new kind of DDOS attack has been identified. They are calling it a \u201cTsunami SYN Flood Attack\u201d which has characteristics of containing 1 MB \/ packet rather than the usual 40-60 bytes \/ packet. The attack is TCP-based rather than UDP based. This results in DDOS traffic of a devastating 4-5 GB \/ second. The key to fending against these attacks are the usage of behavioural algorithms.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Given the increasing sophistication and efficiency of DDOS attacks,\u00a0a recent article<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0advises you to ask your web host provider to answer the following key questions:<\/span><\/p>\n