Anti-DDoS Hosting: A Buyer Guide for High-Traffic Sites

Attack traffic is measured in Tbps, but the number that matters is time to mitigation.\n\n## Always-on vs on-demand\nAlways-on filtering avoids the minutes of downtime that on-demand rerouting costs you.\n\n## Layer 7 matters most\nVolumetric attacks are largely solved. Application-layer floods against login and search endpoints are what take sites down today.\n\n## Latency\nA protection network with no presence in your main traffic region will slow every request. Check edge locations before price.