What “Premium Anti-DDoS” means
## What is Anti‑DDoS?
A distributed denial‑of‑service (DDoS) attack overwhelms a server or network with large volumes of malicious traffic, preventing legitimate users from accessing your services. IllusionCloud provides a basic level of DDoS mitigation by default. This platform‑level protection monitors traffic and rate‑limits volumetric attacks on the shared infrastructure. However, basic protection is designed to protect the overall platform and does not specifically safeguard individual workloads.
## Why choose Premium Anti‑DDoS?
- **Application‑aware mitigation:** Premium protection profiles your application’s normal traffic and monitors it continuously to detect anomalies. It automatically mitigates attacks using advanced techniques such as packet validation, spoof detection and intelligent rate‑limiting to ensure legitimate traffic continues reaching your app.
- **Customized thresholds and adaptive protection:** The service adapts to your usual traffic patterns and tunes packet‑per‑second thresholds over time, providing more accurate mitigation than generic rate‑limit policies.
- **Detailed attack analytics:** You receive metrics and reports that detail the attack vectors, mitigation actions and traffic patterns, enabling you to assess the impact and improve your security posture.
- **Expert support:** Premium plans typically give you access to a rapid response team who can assist during and after an attack.
- **Cost protection:** Some cloud providers refund scale‑out charges associated with an attack when premium DDoS protection is enabled.
## When to consider upgrading