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I humbly assume that DDoS is very unlikely to happen to my website.

A CDN that should protect from it slows my website according to my personal experience and tests (perhaps only because of the strange demand to have all webpages redirected to www. versions when the CDN is active, perhaps not only because of that) and it's also in beta version (supplied by my hosting provider itself) so I might just want to disable it.

Given that my hosting is shared hosting, would the very fact that the hosting is "shared" and the hoster must protect the environment shared by me and other customers actually redeems me from the need of a CDN to protect from DDoS attacks?

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  • Your question is basically "I know DDoS protection is a good thing, but do I really need it?". How are we supposed to answer that for you? We don't know how much financial damage your site will suffer if it is attacked vs how much financial damage it will suffer by keeping the DDoS protection in place. Only you can make that decision.
    – Mike Ounsworth
    May 20, 2021 at 19:24
  • @MikeOunsworth I don't intend to ask the question you have presented; I didn't even think about financial damage at any point (rather, on how to bring back the latest working version of the website if a DDoS attack took place), the only question I ask is if the very renting of shared hosting redeems me from the need of a CDN to protect from a somewhat likely DDoS attack, or not (?).
    – recursiveWithStyle
    May 20, 2021 at 19:30
  • I see. Does the shared hosting provider include DDoS filtering as part of their service offering?
    – Mike Ounsworth
    May 20, 2021 at 19:33
  • @MikeOunsworth I don't know; it's a huge company (Namecheap) so I guess that at least informally they would, but that's just a wild guess...
    – recursiveWithStyle
    May 20, 2021 at 19:40
  • What's in your contract? Did you pay for DDoS protection? Do they list it in their marketing page as an included feature?
    – Mike Ounsworth
    May 20, 2021 at 19:41

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I'm a little unclear about your last paragraph so I'll answer a bit broadly. If you're enabling DDoS protection on a shared hosting system, doing so will protect your site and potentially the other hosted sites from DDoS. If the other sites are not DDoS protected, an attack directed at them could potentially take your site down, even if your own site is DDoS protected.

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  • Benny that's a very interesting answer, thanks ; I do wonder if in any of the cases the hoster would do anything logical to protect the websites of us all.
    – recursiveWithStyle
    May 20, 2021 at 19:31
  • recursiveWithStyle, generally speaking they would have some kind of protection in order to protect their business, but you'd want to ask. If they aren't a very small company, they almost certainly will have multiple servers with load balancing, which would handle some level of DDoS.
    – Benny C
    May 21, 2021 at 0:51

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