Always-On DDoS Protection — Protection That Never Sleeps

On-demand DDoS mitigation monitors your traffic for anomalies and activates filtering when an attack is detected. This reactive approach has a fundamental flaw: between the start of the attack and the activation of mitigation, your server is fully exposed. This detection window typically lasts 30 seconds to several minutes, during which the attack traffic reaches your server unfiltered.

For many servers, 30 seconds of unfiltered DDoS traffic is enough to cause a complete outage. A SYN flood will exhaust the connection table, a UDP flood will saturate the bandwidth, and by the time mitigation activates, the server is already unreachable. Users are disconnected, transactions are interrupted, and the damage is done.

Always-on mitigation eliminates this vulnerability entirely. Every packet flowing to your server passes through the filtering infrastructure at all times, whether an attack is happening or not. When attack traffic arrives, it is filtered immediately — from the very first malicious packet. Your server never experiences the unprotected window that on-demand mitigation creates.

The obvious question about always-on mitigation is: what is the performance cost? If every packet passes through a filtering layer, does that slow down normal traffic? With AnubizHost, the answer is: barely measurably. Our FPGA-based mitigation hardware processes packets at wire speed, adding less than one millisecond of latency under normal conditions.

This sub-millisecond impact is undetectable by users and irrelevant for virtually all applications. Web browsers, APIs, game clients, and streaming players are designed to tolerate much larger latency variations from normal internet routing. The protection is, for all practical purposes, invisible.

During an active attack, the latency impact may increase slightly as the filtering system processes a higher volume of packets. However, this increase is typically in the low single-digit milliseconds range — still imperceptible to users. Your server continues to respond quickly to legitimate requests while millions of attack packets per second are silently discarded.

Always-on protection means you do not need to monitor for attacks, activate mitigation manually, or wake up at 3 AM to respond to an incident. The system handles everything automatically, from the moment your server is deployed until you cancel your service.

Our mitigation automatically adjusts its filtering intensity based on current traffic conditions. During normal periods, the filtering is light — efficient enough to catch obvious attacks while adding minimal processing overhead. When attack traffic is detected, filtering intensity increases automatically, applying more aggressive rules to handle the threat. When the attack subsides, filtering returns to normal levels.

This automatic adjustment happens in real time without human intervention. You do not need to log into a dashboard to activate protection, call a support hotline, or submit a ticket. The system protects your server 24/7/365 with zero operator involvement required. You can focus on running your business while we focus on keeping you online.

Always-on DDoS protection is the default (and only) mode for all AnubizHost servers. We do not offer unprotected plans or on-demand mitigation options because we believe that always-on protection is the only approach that provides genuine security. Every server benefits from continuous filtering at no additional cost.

When you deploy a VPS or dedicated server, the always-on protection is active before you even receive your login credentials. The server's IP address is routed through our mitigation infrastructure during provisioning, ensuring that the first packet to reach your server has already passed through our filters.

For customers migrating from on-demand protection providers, the improvement is immediate and obvious. The anxiety of wondering whether your mitigation will activate in time disappears, replaced by the confidence that your server is continuously protected. Deploy with AnubizHost, update your DNS, and enjoy the peace of mind that comes with protection that never sleeps.