SiteGround offers DDoS Protection equiped quality managed web hosting solutions with the ultimate website speed, strong server security infrastructure, and premium support being its three essential pillars. SiteGround partners with Cloudflare Inc (CDN Service Provider) to bring its customers – Enhanced Security & Speed!
Providing clients with the best possible site speed & security has always been our priority. SiteGround was growing fast, so we required partners who could help us scale quickly & efficiently. Our partnership with Cloudflare will allow us to do just that, while even helping us in improving the product we provide, making it much more valuable for our clients by giving easy access to a service which otherwise they should have to seek out with others on their own!
– Nikolay Todorov (Chief Technical Officer, SiteGround Hosting Ltd)
Does SiteGround Offer Any Anti-DDoS Solutions To Protect My Website From DDoS Attacks?
Yes, Siteground does offer several types of DDoS Protection so that it can prevent your website from getting DDoSed. Here are some of the key features of Anti-DDoS Solutions offered by SiteGround to protect your website and eliminate such harmful attacks:
2. The web hosting services offered by SiteGround do include a limit for the number of connections that can be established by a remote host.
3. A local software firewall is also used by SiteGround which is based on iptables (rule-based Linux Firewall) having more complex functions that help in monitoring your website traffic.
4. SiteGround checks for any high number of failed login attempts from the hosts and also filters them (if any).
Apart from DDoS Protection, you can watch this video below to know how SiteGround secures your site from other malicious threats?
Does Cloudflare Offer Any Additional DDoS Protection For My Site Other Than SiteGround’s Security?
Cloudflare is designed to protect your website from DDoS attacks and stop various other types of online malicious activities such as:
2. Cross-site Attacks
3. Bruteforcing
4. SQL Injections
5. Bulk Spam Comments
These options by default are always enabled for Cloudflare CDN service so that there isn’t any need on your end to opt for certain manual activation.
Assigning Threat Scores with Cloudflare based on the Threat Level of a DDoS Attack
Cloudflare follows an internal method to assign a threat score to each of the visitor IP’s. This threat score assigned can be anything from 0 to 100. Here is a quick brief about what the different security levels are and what do they mean:
ESSENTIALLY OFF – DDoS Threat score when greater than 49 will be challenged
LOW – DDoS threat score when greater than 24 will be challenged
MEDIUM – DDoS threat score when greater than 14 will be challenged
HIGH – DDoS threat score when greater than 0 will be challenged
NOTE: Recommended option is MEDIUM, but still if you notice any suspicious activities targeting your website you can anytime increase the security level of Cloudflare service to HIGH.
How Cloudflare can help my site in Mitigating a DDoS Attack?
Cloudflare has an option specially designed to be used when your website or blog is under a DDoS attack. You can enable this option from your SiteGround cPanel » Cloudflare » Manage » Settings (Select Setting tab next to your Domain Name) » Cloudflare Security Settings (Change the value to I’m Under Attack).
When Cloudflare’s I’m Under Attack option is enabled, every visitor to your blog or website will start seeing a processing web page for a few seconds. During this time Cloudflare starts verifying and confirming if the hit that is coming is indeed caused by a legitimate visitor (or by a bot). Thus, this option must be used only when your website hosted with SiteGround is facing a DDoS Attack.
I hope our review on SiteGround Free DDoS Protection (2022) was helpful to you in knowing how exactly it can (by default) protect and secure your SiteGround hosted website. For more info on SiteGround’s DDoS Protection Tool, Kindly Contact 24×7 SiteGround Support.