Protect your website

Threats to your website

Denial of service (DDoS) attacks

These attacks — undertaken by infected ‘bots’ — are intended to disable the targeted website and prevent access for legitimate users. It is a threat faced by many NGOs, independent media and bloggers. This is a frustrating problem and can have a lot of causes like inadequate website maintenance, unreliable hosting, script-kiddies messing with a website, a 'denial of service' attack or a website takeover.

It is important to know that there are many reasons why your website can go down. It can range from technical problems at the company that hosts the website to a Content Management System (CMS) like Joomla or WordPress that hasn't been updated. Finding the problem and possible solutions to your website's problem can be cumbersome. It is good practice to contact your webmaster and the website hosting provider after diagnosing these common problems below. If none of these options are available to you, seek help from an organization you trust.

Source: https://digitalfirstaid.org/topics/website-not-working/

Mitigation strategies

Deflect is a robust and innovative website protection service designed to withstand distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Deflect offers secure hosting, encrypted connections, advanced mitigation options and much more. Its a free service for qualifying organizations.