Tech teamRunning a website or small org
Denial-of-service (DDoS)
Flooding your site with traffic until it falls over.
Understand it
A distributed denial-of-service attack overwhelms your website with junk traffic from many machines, putting it beyond reach of real customers - sometimes as cover for another attack, or to extort you.
How to spot it
Your site suddenly unreachable or crawling, under a flood of traffic from everywhere at once.
Close the gap
- Place your site behind a provider offering DDoS protection, or a CDN.
- Know who to call, and have the plan ready before it happens.
- Separate critical services so one being flooded does not sink the rest.
- Keep your nerve - paying rarely ends it.
What to do about it
This sits with whoever builds and runs your website or systems - it’s beyond what a personal plan should promise to fix. If that’s not you, hand it to whoever looks after your security. We’d rather be honest about where we stop.
Your own accounts and devices are still worth protecting; your plan covers those.