DosProtect.com is a new site that opened its doors to two simple types of customers: those who have been victims of DOS/DDOS attacks and those who are looking to prevent such attacks before they happen. DosProtect.com acts like any other web hosting provider, offering competitive amounts of disk space, data transfer (bandwidth), and other features. The only difference is that they also offer Mbps protection against DOS/DDOS attacks. The more Mpbs you have, the more protection you have.
looking at the advantages
external filtering. Unlike using DDOS prevention scripts that must cause your server to be directly attacked so that it can analyze and prevent bad traffic and allow good traffic in, DosProtect.com protects your website even from receiving such malicious traffic first. Even if you were to use free filtering scripts to defend against DOS/DDOS attacks, it still eats up your bandwidth enormously, even when dealing with small amateur attacks. With DDoS hosting, you never have to worry about many attacks. The only thing you need to worry about is getting enough protection from Mpbs, which you can upgrade anytime you need it during an attack.
Mpbs protection can be as high as 10Gbps. This is a great advantage. Many major attacks tend to go as high as 700 Mbps, while amateur attacks are as low as 50-300 Mbps. That means you can receive a maximum level of protection. They use state-of-the-art hardware like Radware, Juniper, Cisco, Arbor Networks, Foundry, and A10. They are also based on custom caching proxies. In simple terms, this means that any DDoS attack trying to harm your customers will need to go through six levels of filtering, which can prevent attacks of any size at all times.
Good customer service. Many technicians I have spoken with in the past take up to 2 days before giving me a response from other DDOS hosting providers. It was refreshing to get an answer in just 15 minutes. The representative who contacted me responded to my questions quickly and professionally when it wasn’t even business hours. This is important to know, especially when attacks can happen at any time.
Looking at the disadvantages.
Expensive. DDOS prevention is expensive in general. It can cost hundreds of dollars a month to get the most adequate protection. Like any other DDoS hosting provider, these services are expensive. In fact, most services use a combination of hardware and a custom script that they wrote themselves or hired a third party to do for them. This can cost them as much as $40,000 – $700,000. You would never have to pay that much. You can pay as little as $150 for good monthly DOS protection. However, it is a necessary investment for victims of DOS/DDOS attacks, as the price of being unprepared can be much higher.
Low data transfers. For medium and large websites, high data transfer is necessary to manage their large bandwidth loads. Unfortunately, these types of websites could not work with smaller cheap plans at DosProtect.com. Budget plans are best suited for newer, smaller websites that are just starting out or handle a specific niche of website traffic that doesn’t consume a lot of bandwidth. Naturally, you’ll want to work on optimizing your website to improve your website’s performance and reduce your data transfer usage through careful .htaccess/GZIP modifications. It can help you save space and money by avoiding overages and possibly getting smaller (more affordable) plans.
The bottom line. Recommended for large commercial sites (using large amounts of data transfer) only if you’re prepared to pay higher prices for custom plans. However, the biggest advantage is the amount of bandwidth filtering (Mbps protection) they can provide. This is what protects you in the first place. It is higher than many other competing providers (up to 3x the average amount at their current prices of $149), allowing your server to take on very large DOS/DDOS attacks at competitively lower prices. You just need to look at your natural bandwidth usage (the good traffic) and make sure your website is best suited for that plan, as low data transfer can be a disadvantage for you if you don’t prepare ahead of time.