DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks flood a server or network with so much traffic that legitimate users can’t get through. They don’t break into your application; they make it unavailable. When a major DNS provider was hit with a massive DDoS attack using a botnet of compromised IoT devices, it took down Netflix, PayPal, Twitter, and other services that depended on a single provider.
The lesson: any single point of failure, whether it’s a DNS provider, a server, or a data center, is a risk.
How multi-region hosting helps
If your entire infrastructure runs in one data center and that location gets hit by a DDoS attack (or any other outage), everything goes down. If you spread your VPS hosting across multiple regions, an attack on one location doesn’t take everything offline.
We have six data centers: Las Vegas, Dallas, Ashburn, Santa Clara, Amsterdam, and Singapore. You can deploy Linux VPS or Windows VPS instances across multiple locations and use DNS failover to route traffic away from an affected region.
DDoS protection options
Beyond multi-region deployment, we offer DDoS protection for VPS hosting and dedicated servers. DDoS protection filters attack traffic before it reaches your server, letting legitimate requests through while dropping the flood. This can absorb volumetric attacks (high-bandwidth floods) and application-layer attacks (targeted at your web server or API).
For applications that are frequent DDoS targets (gaming servers, financial services, e-commerce), adding DDoS protection to your VPS or dedicated server is worth the investment.
Building for resilience
The best defense combines multiple layers:
- Deploy across at least two data center regions
- Use DDoS protection on your servers
- Use multiple DNS providers (not just one)
- Keep backups in a separate region
- Have a runbook for what to do when an attack happens
If you want help designing a resilient setup with VPS hosting or dedicated servers, contact our team.