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Behind the scenes of WEDOS Global Protection: what it takes to build a European shield against DDoS attacks

Most of our customers do not even know that they have WEDOS Global Protection enabled. They only see a website that is running quietly and does not even notice the attacks. But only a few hours earlier, it may have been a problematic website that was overloading the server and affecting other customers. Within five minutes, our support team redirected the traffic from the server to more than one hundred anycast reverse proxies, which immediately started filtering the traffic. So what is happening under the hood? There is surprisingly a lot of technology behind it. Let us take a closer look.

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20. IT Security Workshop, 12/03/2026

Speaker: Lukáš Kos
Beyond Hardware:

Why Your DDoS Protection Can Fail Before Reaching Your Datacenter

Last Thursday, we presented at the ITSW conference in Prague on a critical topic: the evolution of volumetric DDoS attacks. While these attacks used to be rare, current data shows they are becoming increasingly frequent and more powerful. However, the risk of upstream saturation is often underestimated.

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WEDOS Global even faster in Finland with the launch of IXP Netnode in Helsinki

WEDOS Global, our global infrastructure providing unrivalled speed and reliability in Europe for your websites and applications, has just taken another big step forward. After a successful connection to Netnod, one of the leading Internet nodes in Northern Europe, we have now extended our network to Helsinki (Finland), thanks to a new connection to Netnod’s IXP (Internet Exchange Point).

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We have launched another WEDOS Global location – Germany – Frankfurt.

We last updated you on the expansion of WEDOS Global’s infrastructure in September, when we launched a point in Dublin, Ireland. During October, we completed all the necessary preparations for the launch of the next point, this time in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. This is a very important point for us in the future, which is why we have reinforced the hardware from the beginning. Germany is one of the most important crossroads on the European internet map.

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WEDOS Global connects to the heart of the Finnish Internet to the FICIX Internet node

On Tuesday 10. On October 2023, at exactly 7:45 a.m., the first packets from the members’ network flowed through FICIX, Finland’s largest Internet node, to WEDOS Global. This is particularly important for customers targeting the Northern European market, as DNS server responsiveness and distribution of cached content will be significantly improved for their visitors.

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