DDoS protection?

[fatalx12]

Does x10 have DDoS protection??

 

[bdistler]

in short...
if x10hosting did not have strong protection in place - to keep the bad guys out - all servers would be down and this forum would be off line

 

[essellar]

You can get DDoS protection via Cloudflare, but Cloudflare comes with its own set of "problems". (They're not really problems, but they do require some idea about how a caching proxy/CDN in front of your application server will affect your site and code, and that's generally beyond the skills/experience of Free Hosting users. Up-to-date off-the-shelf software usually accommodates things well, but copy-paste tutorial code, not so much. And naive hit counters won't work properly, since most of the "hits" won't actually happen.) Free Hosting that isn't just software-as-a-service ("Please select 'Blog' or 'Forum' below") has to strike a precarious balance between "as much security as we can manage under the circumstances" and "teh codez I finded WORKS", and since they're almost mutually exclusive, it ain't easy.

 

[caftpx10]

From what I've been told, there is DDoS protection and firewalls to prevent or migrate bad connections (aka attacker). Cloudflare's free plan comes with basic DDoS protection, I'm not sure how good it is. From what I've read, extreme DDoS attacks for Cloudflare is too much and they can end up getting in contact with you (I think it was a 1TB/s attack or somewhere around those lines).

 

[fatalx12]

Thanks guys, I just wanted to know if my service was protected.