10Gbps DDoS Protection — Multi-Gigabit Attack Mitigation

A decade ago, a 10Gbps DDoS attack was considered massive. Today, it is commonplace. Booter and stresser services routinely advertise attack capacities of 10Gbps or more for a few dollars per month. Amplification techniques using DNS, NTP, and memcached can multiply a modest attack source into a multi-gigabit flood with minimal effort.

For context, 10Gbps of attack traffic is roughly equivalent to downloading 125 full-length movies per second, or 1.25 gigabytes every second flooding your server's network interface. A standard VPS with a 1Gbps port is overwhelmed ten times over. Even servers with 10Gbps ports will be saturated, leaving no bandwidth for legitimate traffic.

This is why baseline DDoS protection in 2024 must handle at least 10Gbps — anything less and you are vulnerable to attacks that cost an adversary almost nothing to launch. AnubizHost mitigation capacity far exceeds this baseline, but 10Gbps protection represents the minimum threshold that every server on our network meets.

When a 10Gbps attack hits your server, our mitigation infrastructure absorbs it at the network edge. The attack traffic flows into our scrubbing centers where it is filtered by dedicated hardware capable of processing hundreds of gigabits per second. The 10Gbps flood is a small fraction of our total capacity, so it is absorbed without straining our infrastructure or affecting other customers.

The filtering process identifies attack packets based on multiple characteristics: source IP reputation, packet header anomalies, protocol compliance, and flow patterns. Malicious packets are dropped silently while legitimate traffic passes through to your server. The entire process happens in microseconds, adding negligible latency to clean traffic.

Our upstream bandwidth is provisioned at multiples of our aggregate customer bandwidth, with additional headroom specifically for absorbing attacks. The 10Gbps flood that would overwhelm your server is a rounding error in our total available capacity, and our infrastructure is designed to handle concurrent attacks against multiple customers simultaneously.

While 10Gbps represents a common attack threshold, AnubizHost protection does not stop there. Our mitigation capacity scales well into the terabit range, providing protection against attacks that are orders of magnitude larger. Modern amplification attacks can easily reach 100Gbps, 500Gbps, or even multiple terabits per second, and our infrastructure is built to handle these worst-case scenarios.

The advantage of our architecture is that mitigation capacity is pooled across the network rather than allocated per-server. If your server faces a 10Gbps attack today and a 200Gbps attack tomorrow, the same infrastructure handles both without any change to your plan or pricing. You do not need to predict the attack size in advance or pay for a specific mitigation tier.

This scalable approach means that as attacks grow larger over time — which historical trends guarantee they will — your protection automatically keeps pace. The 10Gbps attacks of today will give way to 50Gbps and 100Gbps attacks in coming years, and your AnubizHost server will be protected against all of them without any action required on your part.

Every AnubizHost server comes with 10Gbps and beyond DDoS protection included in the base price. There is no separate mitigation tier to select and no add-on to enable. Simply choose your plan, deploy your server, and the protection is active immediately.

To verify your protection, you can view real-time traffic statistics through your account dashboard. During an attack, the dashboard shows attack bandwidth, packets per second, attack type classification, and the percentage of traffic being filtered. This transparency lets you confirm that our mitigation is working and see exactly what threats your server faces.

If you have specific requirements that go beyond our standard mitigation — such as custom filtering rules for unusual protocols or dedicated mitigation capacity guaranteed for your servers alone — contact our team to discuss enterprise protection packages. For the vast majority of customers, our standard 10Gbps+ always-on protection provides more than sufficient coverage.