The threat landscape is evolving rapidly—and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are leading the charge. According to Zayo Group’s latest DDoS Insights Report, DDoS attack volume surged 81.7% in the past year, with nearly 165,000 attacks recorded in 2024. These attacks are faster, more calculated, and increasingly difficult to defend against—especially for businesses without real-time mitigation in place.
What’s worse? These aren’t long, slow floods anymore. Nearly 87% of attacks now last under 10 minutes, but with enough volume to bring down critical systems. In fact, the average attack now costs $6,000 per minute, totaling $234,000 per incident, with many businesses facing even greater losses due to downtime, reputational fallout, and recovery costs.
The True Cost of a DDoS Attack
Beyond the $234,000 average direct cost, businesses 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
The Zayo Group’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.