In the website hosting industry, many business websites with huge traffic or confidential data/databases often opt for Dedicated Web Server Hosting. Dedicated Servers being the best option to protect the sites from the access of any other users, it has been the most considerable solution. These servers come with many features and give the users privilege to own the server where they can do almost anything under the rules of hosting provider.
Being known that Dedicated Hosting is suitable for high end websites, hackers do try to make hacking attempts on such servers. Due to the continuos monitoring from the Dedicated Server providers, they find it difficult to be successful in such attempts. However, at few times, when either of the hackers find a path to enter the server which is technically called a bug, they instantly take an action and have command over your server. This has been a rising issue and hundreds of sites are being hacked everyday. The users are almost left alone with the protection of their sites/servers. If these users have Unmanaged servers, it would be too difficult for them to get protected or even prevent from such attempts. However, if the hosting provider offers Fully Managed Hosting solution then they can atleast rely on the host to give necessary suggestions or even help with the protection of their websites or a server.
Many hosting providers offer Dedicated Servers with firewall. This firewall may cost few hundred dollars using which you could prevent your site if strong settings are done. It is found that many hackers easily break the rules of such Firewall. This happens only for those sites which are often under the attack of hackers. If this is the case with your site, the website hosting providers might not like you to be their customer. However, if the site has less number of attacks that could be prevented, they would either ask you to get a Firewall installed or will recommend you to use Proxy Shield. This proxy shield is capable of protecting big DDoS attacks, but if your site has severe attacks even that would not help. Also, this proxy shield costs so much that a common user cannot afford to buy it at all.
Now, it is necessary for a user to check the reviews for hosting provider. One should make sure that it is not a regular issue with the servers of your host. It happens with few hosts that their servers are often targeted by DDoS attacks. You should always confirm that your hosting provider is not one of such hosts. It might be a case too that a specific data center has DDoS attacks. Hence, you must also confirm that your site is not hosted in such data centers.
To conclude, there is no perfect solution for a DDoS attack. The only thing that could be done to prevent from DDoS attempts is taking necessary precautions. Reviewing the servers, subnets etc. could be few of those necessary steps. Finding a reliable host is very important to get protected from any hacking/DDoS attempts.