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DDoS protection and Web hosting

Asked by subfictional in ISPs & Web Hosting, Web Hosting

Tags: ddos, protection

Last week my company’s website was the target of a DDoS attack. At the time, we were on an inexpensive ($20/month) shared hosting plan. Our provider turned off our domain off in order to keep the other 150 customers on our same server up and running while the attack was underway. When the traffic subsided, the provider turned our domain back on. 24 hours later the attack was underway again and the provider again shut off our domain. In order to get back up and running, we moved to a dedicated server with the same ISP. The dedicated server was able to take the increased load and we have not gone down since.

My question is where to go from here. The DDoS attack has not resumed, but I believe it could in the future and would like to plan for it because our business depends completely on our website and surround services (email, ftp, etc.). The current hosting provider is pleasant and responsive, and I think they did all they could to help us out during the attack. But, they are a small outfit with (I think) co-located servers and fewer resources than a larger datacenter like Rackspace (for example). They have no specific hardware DDoS protection.

The options as I see them:

1.      Stay with current host on dedicated server. Dedicated server should take excess load during most DDoS attacks.
2.      Move to a dedicated server at a larger hosting provider (ie., Rackspace, the Planet, etc.) with hardware DDoS protection.
3.      Move to a shared hosting plan at a larger hosting provider (ie., Rackspace, the Planet, etc.) with hardware DDoS protection.

Right now, a dedicated server is overkill for our requirements, but I think that ANY shared hosting plan is going to be inadequate against DDoS.

Thoughts and comments, please…

-Christie
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