DDoS protection

[koddos]

Do you believe that DDoS protection is effective?
Are there many webmasters who use it?

[pyaar]

Yes, but some much only. It's useless. You will use the stopthehacker,cloudflare use such type of types for protection. Where i will not prefer the cloudflare because it uses the projecthoney and the hackers easily break this for spamming ,specially in forums . Suppose V7n start use the cloudflare and think that they will safe. Its totally wrong. That will hide your dns only.But not fully in some hosting.In some of the areas you will safe either you use the DDOS or Stopthehacker but not fully anywhere. Nobody will take the 100 percent guarantee.

[Interactiveonline]

It depends. Nowadays you can't be safe totally, any protection has vulnerabilities

[JPC-Sabrina]

DDoS is getting more serious. Everyone needs to put something up but they will get through somewhere. I had heard that Cloudflare was performing well but more recently I see many turning it off. So, at this point I'm wondering what is a better solution. At this point is it the case that it can happen. Even with something you have enabled for protection there is the likely hood of a DDoS.

[highseo]

Yes, i think its needed. However it depends on the filed of your business, its probable for all kinds of businesses. For example if you are running a money related website, its more probable that hackers attack your website with DDoS or other techniques. Some server providers, offer DDoS protection for free and you also can ask your hosting to offer it to you. I think its needed if you are running a production website.

[dmitri]

DDoS attacks most likely happen somewhere around the holidays. I used to buy protection just in case a month before Christmas or Valentine's Day. It must be a good practice when selling gifts online etc. Here's the service.

[DarwinEvolution]

It all depends on the type of website you have. I agree that if you have a commerce site that handles money or important transactions, its a good idea to have. However if you run a blog or entertainment site, it may not be as useful or worthwhile to have around, since there are always going to be vulnerabilities that can be exploited.

[ExpressFans]

Actually i dont have trubble with Ddoss on my site , but when i got some problems i will use some App to fix

Thanks.

[snakeair]

Originally Posted by ExpressFans

Actually i dont have trubble with Ddoss on my site , but when i got some problems i will use some App to fix

Thanks.

What App would that be?

Some people worry about getting a DDoS attack and want all the tips they can get.

[hosting advisor]

First of all you need to to analyze the type of DDOS attack then search for logs to examine as to if it is specifically happening from a single range of IP addresses or multiple. For basic, you can null-route the IP address, harden the security on software as well as hardware firewall. If that doesn't work, then use Anti-DDoS Proxy Shield which offers 100% protection from DDOS attack.

[damoncloudflare]

Originally Posted by JPC-Sabrina

DDoS is getting more serious. Everyone needs to put something up but they will get through somewhere. I had heard that Cloudflare was performing well but more recently I see many turning it off. So, at this point I'm wondering what is a better solution. At this point is it the case that it can happen. Even with something you have enabled for protection there is the likely hood of a DDoS.

CloudFlare can generally help mitigate most DDoS attacks (not all). If someone is using CloudFlare and getting an attack, there are tips in our support section for dealing with them.

[Tedel]

You could also consider this:

Protect against denial-of-service (DOS) attacks by limiting file upload size ^

One method to help protect your server against DOS attacks involves limiting the maximum allowable size for file uploads. Here, we are limiting file upload size to 10240000 bytes, which is equivalent to around 10 megabytes. For this rule, file sizes are expressed in bytes. Check here for help with various file size conversions. Note: this code is only useful if you actually allow users to upload files to your site.

# protect against DOS attacks by limiting file upload size
LimitRequestBody 10240000

Source: http://perishablepress.com/stupid-htaccess-tricks/
A great read about .htaccess, I must admit.

[damoncloudflare]

I just wanted to let folks know that CloudFlare has released a new called "I'm Under Attack" that can help with many common attack types. You can find the information on our blog by doing a search.

[Igal Zeifman]

DDoS mitigation is something that my company does on daily basis and yes - DDoS mitigation by deflation is 100% effective, you just need a lot of resources and the right balancing technology.

Having said that, best protection is by prevention.

Few DDoS attacks start by choosing a specific target (Unless your a big site or have some really determent enemies).

More often than not an attack will be "random" - a result of wide search performed by scanner bots who look for "vulnerable prey".

In most cased, blocking these bots will turn away the attack - preventing it even before it happens.

[snakeair]

When I look for a host, I always try to find out if that host has good protection against DDOS attacks or have acted very fast in fixing things if it happen's. Good web hosts are fast in fixing issues as they should have the team and technology in place.