A DDoS attack floods your site or server with fake traffic from many machines until real users can't get through. It's like a crowd jamming a shop doorway. Defense layers filtering, scaling and a CDN so legitimate visitors still get in.
What a DDoS attack is
DDoS stands for Distributed Denial of Service. Attackers use many compromised devices to send huge volumes of requests at once, overwhelming your server's capacity so it slows to a crawl or goes down entirely.
How it hurts a business
- Your site is unreachable — lost sales and leads.
- Reputation and customer trust take a hit.
- Staff scramble, and recovery costs add up.
Often a smokescreen: some DDoS attacks distract teams while attackers attempt something else. Treat them seriously.
How to defend against it
- CDN / scrubbing: services like Cloudflare absorb and filter junk traffic before it reaches you.
- Rate limiting: cap how many requests a single source can make.
- Autoscaling: add capacity to ride out spikes.
- Good architecture: remove single points of failure.
Prepare before it happens
The best time to set up protection is before an attack. We put a CDN and filtering in front of your services, add monitoring and alerts, and keep a response plan ready — so an attack is an inconvenience, not a crisis. Resilient infrastructure underpins all of it.