DDoS attacks hit without any prior warning! Instead, they flood your resources, disrupt your online operations, and potentially damage your website’s reputation within a couple of minutes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A majority of businesses undervalue how silently it damages your systems without prior warning. DDoS web hosting solutions offered by MilesWeb come with continuous threat monitoring<\/a> and control to ensure guaranteed uptime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Covering all the aspects from finding the best web hosting with DDoS protection<\/a> to selecting the best DDoS hosting provider, everything will be explained in this thorough DDoS protection guide. By the end of this blog, you’ll understand the workings behind DDoS attacks, how to identify them, and how to protect your website with the best DDoS hosting solution. So, are you ready?<\/p>\n\n\n\n DDoS, i.e., distributed denial of service attack, is a deliberate attempt to interrupt the regular traffic of a targeted system, server, service, or network by flooding it with excessive traffic, completely slowing down or making the targeted systems completely inaccessible to authorized users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n DDoS attacks succeed in flooding the targeted systems by utilizing a network of hijacked devices ranging from conventional computer systems to networked devices like IoT systems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n If seen at a glance, it looks like an online traffic jam bringing regular traffic to a halt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Usually, DDoS attacks are launched by using a network of interconnected infected devices across the Internet. Which comprises computers and other connected devices, like IoT systems. These computers are infested with malware, and their operation is taken over by remote attackers. Each one of these infected devices is known as a bot or zombie and together they are referred to as a botnet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n After establishing a botnet, the attacker sends remote instructions to the bots to flood the target. During the attack, a single bot sends fake requests to the target’s IP address, potentially flooding it, which denies access to the regular traffic. Since every bot appears as an authentic device, it is difficult to distinguish harmful traffic from valid requests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Attackers prime motivation behind the attack can be one of the below :<\/p>\n\n\n\n On a broader perspective, there are three types of DDoS attacks as below :<\/p>\n\n\n\n The goal of this type of attack is to create saturation by consuming all the bandwidth available on the targeted site. The magnitude of attack is measured in bits per second (Bps).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also termed as state-exhaustion attacks, the goal of protocol attacks is to cause disruption of a service by consuming the actual server resources or those of the intermediate communication tools like load balancers and firewalls. The magnitude is measured in packets per second (Pps).<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is sometimes referred to as a layer 7 DDoS attack, the goal of these attacks is to exhaust the resources of the targets causing the web server to crash. The magnitude is measured in requests per second (Rps).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Below are some common types of DDoS attacks :<\/p>\n\n\n\n The User Diagram Protocol (UDP), a sessionless networking protocol, floods random ports on a remote host. Therefore, the host repeatedly checks for the application listening at those ports and reports back with an ICMP packet. This process destroys the resources of the host, causing inaccessibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In ICMP flood attack, the target resource is overwhelmed with ICMP Echo Request (ping) packets rapidly without waiting for the replies. In this type of attack, both outgoing and incoming bandwidth is consumed, since the server of victim will often attempt to respond with ICMP Echo Reply packets resulting in a significant complete system slowdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The TCP connection sequence is exploited by the SYN flood attack that is known as three-way handshake. A synchronized (SYN) message is received on the host\u2019s machine to start with the \u201chandshake\u201d. The request is acknowledged by the server by sending the acknowledgement (ACK) flag to the initial host and waits for the connection to be closed. The connection will get completed when the requesting machine will close the connection. In an SYN flood, spoofed requests are sent and server responds with an ACK packet to complete the TCP connection but the connection is allowed to timeout, instead of closing it. Therefore, the server resources get exhausted and the server goes offline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A denial of service attack wherein the attacker sends multiple malicious or malformed pings to a computer is called as Ping of Death attack. The maximum packet length of an IP packet is 65,535 bytes. In this attack, when the recipient follows malicious manipulation of fragment content, he\/she ends up with an IP packet that is larger than 65,535 bytes when reassembled. Due to this, memory buffers allocated for the packet can overflow, causing denial of service for legitimate packets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A highly targeted attack, Slowloris enables one web server to take down another server, without having an effect on other services or ports on the target network. This is done by holding maximum connections to the target web server open for as long as possible. The target machine will open with partial requests and is permitted to stay open for maximum time. HTTP headers will also be sent at certain intervals by the target machine. Due to this the requests will increase but won\u2019t be complete \u2013 keeping them open for longer time until the target website isn\u2019t able to stay online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In NTP Amplification attack, the publically-accessible Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers are exploited to destroy a targeted server with UDP traffic. The attack is termed as an amplification assault due to the query-to-response ratio which is anywhere between 1:20 and 1:200 or more. From this scenario, one thing is for sure that any attacker obtaining the list of open NTP servers can easily produce a overwhelming high-bandwidth, high-volume denial of service attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this attack, seemingly-legitimate HTTP GET or POST requests are exploited to attack a web application or server. No malformed pockets, reflection or spooking techniques are used by HTTP floods and need less bandwidth as compared to other attacks to bring down the targeted server or site. When the server or application is forced to assign maximum resources possible in response to each single request, the attack is highly effective at that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Zero-day attacks are referred to those attacks that are completely new DDoS attack methods that exploit vulnerabilities which haven\u2019t been patched yet. This term is popular among the hacker community members, since, the zero-day vulnerabilities trading practice has become a popular activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was previously known as \u201cIncapsula\u201d and provides more comprehensive security against hybrid, application, and volumetric DDoS attacks. As a component of Imperva\u2019s security suite, it merges modern traffic filtering and dynamic threat intelligence to protect your websites and applications from a variety of cyber threats. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Impeva\u2019s cloud-based infrastructure provides instant security for businesses of every size, assuring faster response time and minimum service disruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An anti-DDoS tool, Cloudbric is useful to all types businesses and individuals with a website or domain, irrespective of the web host provider. Cloudbric can be activated on your website within a minute with just a simple DNS setting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Your website gets surrounded by a shield to filter malicious attacks. Companies like Samsung, eBay, ING and others use Cloudbric to protect their websites. The intuitive user interface is quite easy to understand and its dashboard displays essential information clearly so that the user can spot any problems rapidly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With Cloudflare web hosting DDoS protection<\/a>, your device withstands DDoS attacks, protecting it against cyberthreats targeting ICMP and UDP protocols, SYN\/ACK, DNS, and NTP amplification, and Layer 7 attacks. The company that created this tool, Cloudflare Inc. has proudly confirmed that its software has secured users against sustained attacks of more than 400Gbps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All attack traffic is routed by Cloudflare via its global data centers\u2019 network, decreasing its impact on your website. After the attack traffic gets diverted, the tool influences the network as well as infrastructure\u2019s significant global capacity it depends on, for absorbing the attack traffic floods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This tool automatically learns from attacks that it needs to protect all its customers against the threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Operating under NETSCOUT, Arbor Networks is the largest provider of leading-edge DDoS security and network traffic monitoring tools. Leading ISPs and organizations across the world trust this anti-DDoS solution, offering dynamic threat detection, automatic threat response, and thorough traffic analytics. The highly sophisticated, massive DDoS attacks can be confidently mitigated by businesses and individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An advanced anti-DDoS protection tool, StormWall Pro helps to defend your website against most severe attacks. It can block all types of DDoS attacks and completely supports Joomla, Drupal, WordPress, Magento, Bitrix, PrestaShop, and other CMS products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since its present in US, Europe and Russia, clients all over the world face minimal latency. StormWall is simple to use and it just takes few minutes to can connect and enable protection. Also, there are engineers of StormWall that will help you in everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Additionally, if there is any technical issue, it can get resolved instantly through chat mostly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n MilesWeb\u2019s web hosting DDoS protection has partnered with Cloud Website Security Solutions, like Cloudbric, that help your website effectively mitigate every type of attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cloudbric is the perfect solution for the users concerned about their website security that blocks the website attacks accurately and is also trusted by the industry leaders. When your website is secured with Cloudbric, it blocks the botnet traffic and stops the attack with its intelligent detection potential. It\u2019s unfortunate that your website won\u2019t be the victim of DDoS attack but to avoid your website being compromised its essential to add your website to Cloudbric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The advanced DDoS solution of Cloudbric, protects your website against the most common one to complicated multi-vector and application layer attacks like Slowloris and R-U-Dead-Yet (RUDY).<\/p>\n\n\n\nTable Of Content<\/h2>\n
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What is a DDoS Attack?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The Anatomy of a DDoS Attack<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
What is the Motivation behind a DDoS Attack?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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DDoS Attack: Key Stats and Insights 2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Common Types of DDoS Attacks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
– Volume Based or Volumetric Attacks <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
– Protocol Attacks <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
– Application Layer Attacks <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
1. UDP Flood<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
2. ICMP (Ping) Flood<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
3. SYN Flood<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
4. Ping of Death<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
5. Slowloris<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
6. NTP Amplification<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
7. HTTP Flood<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
8. Zero-day DDoS Attack<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Top 5 DDoS Protection Solutions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
1. Imperva DDoS Protection<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
2. Cloudbric<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
3. Cloudflare<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
4. Arbor Networks (NETSCOUT)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
5. StormWall Pro<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
How MilesWeb\u2019s Cloudbric Website Security Solution helps to mitigate the DDoS attack?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Other attacks blocked by Cloudbric are \u2013<\/h2>\n\n\n\n