A website outage does not begin with a blue screen. It begins much earlier: with poorly laid foundations. In this article, we will show you how three WEDOS services together form a complete defense system that also meets the requirements of the NIS2 directive. And all of it fully in Europe, under European jurisdiction.
Where does website security actually begin?
When people hear “website security”, most imagine a firewall or an antivirus. But an attacker does not need to breach your server to take you offline. Knocking out your DNS is enough. Or flooding you with traffic your server simply cannot handle. Or quietly probing for vulnerabilities until they find one, and you only learn about it when it is too late.
Website security is therefore not one thing. It is a chain. And a chain is only ever as strong as its weakest link.
We built that chain from three links: WEDOS.zone (DNS), WEDOS Protection (security), and WEDOS OnLine (monitoring). Each works brilliantly on its own. Together, they form something you will not easily find anywhere else in Europe.
Layer one: DNS you can rely on (WEDOS.zone)
DNS is the phone book of the internet. When it stops working, you cease to exist. Nobody can reach your website, emails stop flowing, APIs go silent. And yet most companies run their DNS on a single server with a single provider and hope it holds.
WEDOS.zone is Anycast DNS as a Service built on one of the largest networks of its kind in Europe: over 120 points of presence worldwide, more than 5,000 servers, of which over 3,000 serve Edge DNS and CDN. Thanks to Anycast routing over the BGP protocol, every DNS query is answered at the nearest active node. The result? Minimal latency for visitors anywhere in the world and natural resilience against outages and attacks alike.
How does Anycast protect against DDoS? Simply and elegantly. Thanks to BGP routing, an attack gets distributed across dozens of nodes around the globe, so no single point ever gets overwhelmed. The attacker is fighting the entire network at once, not one server. And on top of that:
- DNSSEC to protect the integrity of your records (nobody can feed you a forged response)
- GeoDNS and load balancing for smart traffic routing
- DNS over TLS and DNS over QUIC for encrypted communication
- 100% SLA on availability
- Zero-downtime deployment, migration from your current provider happens with everything running
And one more thing that is a deciding factor for many companies: all data stays exclusively in the EU, in two privately owned data centers. No handover to third parties, no foreign jurisdictions, no Cloud Act.
Layer two: A shield in front of your server (WEDOS Protection)
DNS keeps you findable. But what if the attack targets your website or application directly?
WEDOS Protection is complete protection against DDoS attacks and web threats at layers L3, L4, and L7. It filters malicious traffic at the network edge, meaning before it ever gets anywhere near your infrastructure. Your server often does not even know an attack is happening. It just keeps running.
What that means in practice:
Multi-layer DDoS mitigation. Volumetric attacks (L3/L4) get dispersed across the Anycast network and filtered out at scrubbing nodes around the world. Sophisticated application-layer attacks (L7) are caught by intelligent filtering. The highest protection tiers handle attacks of up to 5 Tbps and a billion packets per second.
Advanced WAF. A Web Application Firewall with OWASP rules and WEDOS custom rules protects against SQL injection, XSS, and other application-layer attacks.
JA4 and JA4H fingerprinting. This is a league ordinary protections do not play in. Every client connecting to your website leaves a unique fingerprint based on how it assembles its TLS handshake and HTTP headers. Bots, scrapers, and attack tools give themselves away even when they change IP addresses, rotate proxies, and spoof the User-Agent. Rules built on JA4/JA4H fingerprints let you filter out malicious traffic with surgical precision, without a single real visitor noticing a thing.
And on top of that: GeoIP blocking, rate limiting, ASN and IP filters, CDN caching for static content, Grafana dashboards with real traffic and attack data, and AI bot and scraper protection in the higher tiers.
All of it, once again, runs fully in the EU. Logs, configurations, and analytics stay in two privately owned European data centers. For companies dealing with GDPR, NIS2 supply chain requirements, or simply unwilling to send their visitors’ data outside Europe, this is not a detail. It is a decisive argument.
And you can start for free. The FREE plan offers full L3/L4 protection, a managed WAF, and a CDN for personal websites and blogs, no credit card required.
Layer three: Eyes that never sleep (WEDOS OnLine)
You have the best DNS and the best protection. But how do you know everything actually works? Protection without monitoring is like an alarm without a siren.
WEDOS OnLine watches over your websites, servers, and services non-stop, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You set the check intervals from 60 seconds up to 45 minutes, depending on how critical the service is. And when something breaks, you find out immediately: by email, on your phone, or straight into your company chat.
What you get:
A global network of probes. Dozens of measurement probes across the world, in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Australia. You measure a website for Asian customers from Asia and a European e-shop from Europe. You measure where your real visitors are.
No false alarms. An outage is confirmed by at least 3 independent probes. When a notification arrives, it means a real problem.
A monitoring center. For technicians and teams who need all their services under control on a single screen, in real time.
Your own status page. Transparent communication with customers and partners. When something is happening, your clients see it on your status page before they start writing to support. Incident overview, outage history, planned maintenance. Exactly the way the big players do it.
Watching more than just availability. Response speed, SSL certificate expiry, domain expiry, DNS records. Everything that decides whether a customer finds you and stays.
By the way, we do not build this monitoring from behind a desk. We use it ourselves to watch hundreds of thousands of our customers’ services and our entire own infrastructure. When you measure millions of requests every second, you know what monitoring has to be capable of.
Why it all makes sense together
Now put it together:
- WEDOS.zone makes sure the world can always find you. DNS queries are answered in a flash and the network withstands even a massive attack.
- WEDOS Protection makes sure only legitimate traffic reaches you. Attacks, bots, and scrapers stay at the door.
- WEDOS OnLine makes sure you know about everything. Availability, speed, certificates, everything that is going on. And your customers see it on your status page.
Availability. Protection. Visibility. Three layers that complement each other and cover each other’s backs. When one layer catches something, the others know about it. When anything breaks, you learn about it in seconds, not from an angry customer email the next morning.
And the whole thing runs on one infrastructure, from one vendor, with one support team and one invoice. No gluing together five services from five companies across five jurisdictions.
The bonus that became a necessity: NIS2
The European NIS2 directive extends cybersecurity obligations to thousands of companies that never had to deal with any regulation before. Cyber risk management, data protection, recovery plans, supply chain risk management, incident reporting. And penalties of up to 10 million euros or 2% of turnover, with personal liability for management.
The good news: the combination of the three services described above covers the key technical requirements of the directive.
- Cyber risk management: multi-layer L3/L4/L7 protection, detecting and blocking malicious requests before they reach your server
- Data protection and integrity: DNSSEC, encrypted DNS traffic, secured DNS records
- Monitoring, reporting, and logs: continuous real-time oversight, automatic anomaly alerts, detailed reports and traffic history, 100% SLA
- Operational continuity: thousands of servers worldwide, automatic traffic rerouting in case of an outage
- European jurisdiction: data stays in the EU, out of reach of non-European legislation
Add to that ISO 9001, 14001, 27001, 27017, and 27018 certifications from TÜV SÜD, our own CSIRT team, GDPR compliance, and ongoing preparation for DORA. You will find a complete overview of our NIS2 solutions at wedos.eu.
While your competitors are still figuring out what NIS2 even means, you can have compliance solved by deploying services your website needs anyway.
How much does it cost? Less than you think
- WEDOS Protection starts with the FREE plan at 0 EUR. Full L3/L4 protection, WAF, and CDN for personal websites, no credit card required. Paid plans then grow with you, from small websites through e-shops all the way to banks and critical infrastructure with a dedicated analyst and NIS2 reporting.
- WEDOS OnLine offers monitoring accessible to everyone, from a single website to hundreds of services with a monitoring center and your own status page.
- WEDOS.zone covers everything from a single domain through backup Secondary DNS to a white label DNS platform under your own brand and full BGP integration with your own ASN for advanced partners.
Start today, even for free
You do not have to switch anything blindly and you do not have to risk downtime. Deployment happens with zero downtime, and our specialists will help you pick the right solution for your exact situation.
Three steps to get started today:
- Activate WEDOS Protection FREE at wedos.protection and leave attacks at the door.
- Set up monitoring at wedos.online and keep your website under 24/7 watch.
- Strengthen your foundations with Anycast DNS at wedos.zone and stop worrying about DNS outages.
A website the world can always find. A website attacks cannot reach. A website you have full visibility into at all times. That is not a marketing slogan. Those are three services that fit together like gears.
Build your security on European foundations. Ours are already built.
Questions, or need help choosing? Reach out via our contact form, we will be happy to advise you.