What is DDoS?
A DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack is a type of cyber attack that aims to crash a website by sending excessive traffic to it.

In short: They crash your website with thousands of fake requests and prevent real users from accessing it.

How Does a DDoS Attack Work?
The hacker usually controls infected devices called botnets.

Thousands of fake requests are directed to your site at the same time.

The hosting server cannot cope with this density and either slows down very much or crashes completely.

Damages of a DDoS Attack
The website becomes inaccessible.

Customers are lost.

Brand reputation is damaged.

SEO rankings may drop.

E-commerce sites lose sales.

How to Stop a DDoS Attack?
1. Use Cloudflare
Cloudflare is one of the most popular and effective solutions against DDoS attacks.

What does it provide?

IP filtering

Blocking bot traffic

Automatic detection of abnormal requests

2. Activate WAF (Web Application Firewall)
It removes malicious traffic by placing a firewall in front of the site.

Cloudflare, Sucuri and similar systems have WAF features.

3. Set Rate Limiting (Request Limiting)
It stops excessive requests coming from a specific IP in a short time.

Example: If there are more than 50 requests in 1 minute, the IP is blocked.

4. Server Level DDoS Protection (Anti-DDoS Hosting)
Use companies that have hardware DDoS protection in their infrastructure, such as Sert Hosting.

Attacks are stopped before they reach the server with IPS/IDS systems.

5. Use Security Plugins (For WordPress)
Wordfence

iThemes Security

Jetpack (Brute-force protection)

You are Safe Against DDoS with Sert Hosting
Sert Hosting protects your website against DDoS attacks with high traffic protection layers and firewalls. Moreover:

Cloudflare integration

Instant traffic analysis

Offers bot and IP filtering support.

Conclusion
DDoS attacks are very common today, but they can be completely prevented with the right precautions. It is critical to protect against these attacks, especially for corporate or e-commerce sites.

If your site is being attacked or you want to take precautions before it is, try the anti-DDoS solutions offered by Sert Hosting and rest assured.