DDoS attack trends, mitigation strategies, and how hosting platforms protect your website.
DDoS attacks flood your server with traffic until it can't respond to real visitors. They're getting larger, more frequent, and easier to launch. A single attack can take a business offline for hours, and most shared hosting setups have no defence against them.
These articles cover DDoS trends, mitigation techniques, and what platform-level protection looks like in practice. We explain the difference between volumetric, protocol, and application-layer attacks, and what your hosting provider should be doing to absorb them.
Cloudflare's 2026 State of Application Security report reveals that 94% of all login attempts are bots, 46% of human logins use compromised credentials, and DDoS attacks doubled to 47.1 million in 2025. Here's what UK businesses need to do right now.
