How Does DDoS Protection For Reseller Accounts Work?

Most web hosts provide a number of different hosting services to their customers. These services include everything from domain name registration, web site building and management, disk space, mailing lists, e-mail and directory services to name a few.

Usually the reseller account is the cheapest of the services that you can choose from when choosing your hosting provider. Some resellers offer a host of additional services such as data backup, database management, spam filtering and anti-virus protection.

However, some hosting companies offer their clients only the basic services. The reason for this is simple: these companies want to make more money and therefore will offer only basic hosting packages.

If you are a reseller or a customer who has already chosen the basic hosting plan, then your next move is to check the reseller account offered by the hosting company. To ensure a good service, you need to find out if the reseller account is protected by Reinforced DDoS Protection.

How does this DDoS protection work? The whole idea behind this type of protection is to protect a hosting account from a brute force attack, or an attack in which the attacker makes use of too many connections to the server so that it takes longer for the server to respond to requests.

This type of attack is the easiest type of DDoS attack to thwart since the attacker does not need to exhaust all connections to the server. However, with brute force attacks the aim is to exhaust all connections before reaching the server, making it take more time for the server to respond to requests.

Fortunately, DDoS protection for reseller accounts allows you to block the IP addresses of the connections making the attacks. By blocking the IP addresses of the traffic can be sent directly to the hosting provider instead of the attacker.

In addition, since the reseller account of a hosting company has been Reinforced by DDoS Protection, there is no risk that it will get the same treatment as the rest of the accounts. The problem is not with the person who rents the account but with the attacker.

Therefore, for all the servers that a hosting company offers, the internet service provider (ISP) takes the responsibility to keep the server online. When a website is down, the ISP would send out an emergency message on their website telling people to visit the server at the hosting company.

However, with a protected hosting account the problem lies with the attacker since there is no one to fix the server. Once the attacker stops using the connection it is used up, the connection can be taken offline and the hosting account returned to the rightful owner.

As a reminder, DDoS protection for reseller accounts is usually offered by the reseller. In order to make sure that you are getting the best protection you should check the reseller accounts offering DDoS protection.

If you don't want to pay extra for the best protection then you could simply take your business elsewhere. This means that if you are a reseller, you should be looking for a hosting company that offers DDoS protection for reseller accounts.