DDoS Attacks
Website pages can take a long time to load — if they load at all. Sites might be shut down completely. The server they’re on may have been taken offline. Customers are upset, possibly losing business, and a reputation is going with it.
That’s what webmasters can expect with a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.
DDoS attacks are increasing in frequency. Without adequate network protection, any site could be at risk.
The good news is that at Website Source, we’ve taken proactive steps to prevent DDoS attacks from spreading through the network. We’ve got more background to cover here, but if you just want to read the technical details, skip down to Website Source network architecture.
How DDoS attacks work
They start with a hacker finding a computer system that’s vulnerable. The hacker exploits that vulnerability and finds other susceptible systems via that first one. After he gains control of these other systems, …