The Growing Threat of DDoS Attacks
In 2025 alone, the average peak attack size exceeded 1.5 Tbps, with attackers leveraging botnets, amplification vectors, and application-layer floods. For any business relying on dedicated infrastructure, understanding DDoS protection is no longer optional — it is essential.
How Our Mitigation Works
Premium IT employs a multi-layered approach to DDoS defense:
- Network-layer scrubbing: Volumetric attacks are absorbed by our upstream scrubbing centers with over 10 Tbps of combined capacity.
- Edge filtering: Hardware-based ACLs on our border routers drop known-bad traffic before it reaches your server.
- Application-layer analysis: Our intelligent WAF identifies and blocks HTTP floods, slowloris, and other L7 attacks in real time.
- Always-on monitoring: Our NOC monitors traffic 24/7 and can escalate mitigation within seconds.
Included vs. Premium Protection
Every dedicated server from Premium IT includes basic DDoS protection at no extra cost, covering volumetric attacks up to 5 Gbps. For customers requiring higher thresholds, our Premium Shield add-on extends coverage to 500 Gbps with guaranteed sub-10-second mitigation activation.
Best Practices for Server Hardening
While our network handles the heavy lifting, we recommend these server-side precautions:
- Enable SYN cookies and tune TCP stack parameters
- Rate-limit incoming connections with iptables or nftables
- Use a reverse proxy such as NGINX with connection limits
- Keep all software up to date to prevent exploitation
For a detailed guide on configuring firewall rules, see our KB article on UFW.