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Almost every host now advertises DDoS protection, but the phrase covers anything from a real filtering network to a policy of switching your server off....

Does DDoS protection add latency? Usually it adds a little, and how much you get depends far more on the route your traffic takes than on the filtering itself. That distinction decides whether the change is a millisecond nobody notices or thirty that make a shooter unplayable. If you run a game server, a voice service, an API, or anything else where response time is part of what people are paying for, this is a question worth settling before you buy protection rather than after....

You rent a VPS or a dedicated server, you put your website, game, or app on it, and one day it simply stops responding. You cannot reach it either. You open a ticket, and your host replies that the address was hit by a DDoS attack and has been null-routed, which is a polite way of saying they switched it off so the flood would stop hitting everyone else. The attack may already be over, but your server is still dark. This is the moment a lot of people learn that renting a server and protecting it are two separate things....