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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