![]() In the screenshot below, you can see the sudden spike in requests received by a site during a DDoS attack. These requests aren’t the result of a website suddenly getting a spike in traffic: they are automated and will come from a limited number of sources, depending on the scale of the attack. If your site suffers a DDoS attack, you will receive thousands of requests from multiple sources over a period of minutes or sometimes hours. The ‘distributed’ element means that these attacks are coming from multiple locations at the same time, as compared to a DoS which comes from just one location. A DDoS attack consists of a website being flooded by requests during a short period of time, with the aim of overwhelming the site and causing it to crash. Let’s start by examining exactly what a DDoS attack is and, importantly, what it is not.ĭDoS stands for distributed denial of service but is often referred to as a simple denial of service. ![]()
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