Protection against DDoS attacks
OVH is a world reference in Cloud and Web services. With our hosting services, based on a solid infrastructure and characterized by high availability, you only need to worry about the creation and maintenance of the website. With the exclusive Anti-DDoS solution, OVH takes care of your accommodation and strives to keep it available at all times, even in the event of an attack! This protection is essential, because as Octave Klaba underlines: "The question is not whether I need Anti-DDoS protection, but when will I be the target of my first DDoS attack". Our service includes an exclusive Anti-DDoS solution to protect your hosting and ensure its permanent availability in case of attack. This protection is critical. As Octave Klaba said, 'the question is not whether the server will be attacked, but when the attack will occur'.
DDoS attack?
A DDoS attack is intended to prevent access to websites. These are unavailable due to an overload of access requests that saturate server bandwidth or resources. The most common cases of these attacks are called "level 7", and consist of executing a large volume of PHP requests to overload a certain system. Currently, due to democratizing access to information technologies, the risks of being affected by ever larger and more intense attacks are constant. As such, even the most robust infrastructures are at risk.
The «OVH style» security
The security and integrity of customer applications has always been OVH's priority. Over the years, we have been developing solutions that allow us to anticipate, control and mitigate the effects of Anti-DDos attacks. In this way we can guarantee the protection of our dedicated servers and cloud services against large-scale attacks. These tools were adapted and extended to other products, such as Web Hosting, which previously were not covered by such sophisticated protection. Now, it is no longer necessary to block a website to prevent other services or customers from being affected. The current system integrates an attack mitigation solution based on VAC technology, a system that analyzes your traffic in real time to intercept attacks without compromising legitimate traffic. Furthermore, load sharing is carried out optimally with the introduction of PHP-FPM, which improves server performance. In this way, the risks of service overload are eliminated.
PHP hosting
The most used programming language around the world. PHP is the language used by the most popular content managers worldwide, such as WordPress (create a blog), Drupal (website), Prestashop (create online stores), or systems like Lavarel, Symfony, Zend framework. Our PHP hostings are prepared for the requirements of these CMS (content management systems) and applications made up of numerous external libraries (compatible with Composer). We are optimizing infrastructure in order to ensure the best performance of sites managed by the most popular CMS.