The Threat Landscape

Distributed denial-of-service attacks flood your server with traffic until legitimate requests cannot get through. Dedicated servers with public IPs are common targets.

Edge vs On-Host Mitigation

Effective protection starts at the network edge — scrubbing malicious traffic before it reaches your machine preserves CPU and bandwidth for real users.

Minimum Checklist

  • Always-on volumetric scrubbing
  • Rate limiting at the reverse proxy
  • Monitoring and alerting on traffic spikes