The threat landscape in 2025 is evolving faster than ever, and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks remain a top concern. Radware’s latest report for the first half of the year shows sharp increases across nearly every attack vector: web DDoS attacks jumped 54% quarter-over-quarter, bad bot traffic spiked 57%, and claimed hacktivist DDoS campaigns rose 62% year-over-year. Smaller, persistent DDoS campaigns—often under 100,000 requests per second—are on the rise, while peak attacks still reach more than 10 million RPS. Application-layer exploitation is nearing record levels, adding yet another layer of complexity for defenders.
These attacks are becoming more surgical and coordinated, fueled by freely available toolkits, generative AI, and organized hacktivist groups operating on platforms like Telegram. Network-level floods (L3/L4) surged 85.5% over late 2024, with the average customer now facing over 7,200 mitigations per quarter—a 485% increase in just five years. All indicators point toward continued growth and intensification of these trends, making proactive, multi-layered DDoS protection more critical than ever.
The True Cost of a DDoS Attack
The cost of disruption remains staggering: at an estimated $6,000 per minute, a 10-minute outage can quickly rack up $234,000 in direct losses, not counting reputational damage and recovery expenses. Due to these attacks, customers face:
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Lost revenue (e.g., eCommerce sites lose ~$10K/minute).
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Regulatory fines for compliance failures (HIPAA, PCI DSS).
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Long-term reputation damage—60% of SMBs fold within 6 months of a major breach.
DDoS Protection for Businesses is Now Imperative
Radware’s report not only sheds light on the increasing frequency and sophistication of DDoS attacks but also serves as a stark reminder of the tangible, devastating effects these attacks can have on businesses—effects that extend beyond immediate financial losses to include long-term reputational damage and operational disruptions.
DDoS protection for businesses is no longer an optional add-on but a fundamental component of a business’s cybersecurity posture. The reality is that the cost of implementing effective DDoS protection pales in comparison to the potential losses from a single attack, making it a wise and necessary investment for ensuring business continuity, protecting customer trust, and maintaining operational efficiency in an increasingly hostile digital environment.
HostDime’s DDoS Attack Mitigation Services
Now, bare metal server and colocation owners will have the ability to protect themselves better than ever thanks to HostDime’s secure network, which is among the most DDoS protected in the infrastructure industry. That’s because we offer three types of DDoS protection: NETSCOUT’s local inline mitigation, a cloud-based traffic scrubbing service, and a combination of the two.
HostDime’s Inline DDoS Protection
HostDime’s inline DDoS protection is a hardware-based monitoring and mitigation set-up situated directly within our data center. This inline approach filters out malicious traffic on-premises, allowing only legitimate traffic to reach your server. This method has significant advantages:
- Reduced Latency: Since the process is handled within the data center, there is no detour of traffic to external cleaning centers, ensuring end users experience no added latency.
- Enhanced Security: Keeping traffic within the data center eliminates the risk of interception or vulnerabilities that can arise when traffic is sent to third-party cleaning services.
- Intelligent Learning: HostDime’s hardware is designed to learn and adapt to “normal” traffic patterns for your server, improving its ability to distinguish between legitimate traffic and DDoS attacks.
HostDime’s DDoS Cloud Scrubbing
In addition to inline mitigation, HostDime offers DDoS Cloud Scrubbing, an IP routing service where traffic is thoroughly examined and cleaned before being rerouted to the enterprise network via Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) tunnels. This process acts as a powerful safety net, ensuring that in the event of a large-scale DDoS attack, your critical infrastructure remains protected. The cloud scrubbing operates as a private point-to-point link, offering another layer of security and redundancy.
HostDime’s Hybrid DDoS Protection
Lastly, for businesses looking for comprehensive coverage, HostDime provides Hybrid DDoS Protection, combining the best aspects of inline hardware protection with the added security of cloud scrubbing. This setup ensures immediate detection and mitigation of both large and complex DDoS attacks, with the cloud scrubbing ensuring that clean traffic continues to reach your site even under attack.
Don’t Wait Until It Happens
With attack frequency nearly doubling, and AI making threats smarter, the question isn’t if your business will be targeted—it’s when. HostDime’s purpose-built data centers and always-on mitigation solutions are designed to protect mission-critical operations and ensure uptime, even under attack.
Talk to our team today to build a DDoS defense strategy that fits your risk tolerance and business needs.