DDoS Protection for Hosting Providers: What the Data Says About Who Gets Hit
Hosting and cloud providers were the second most targeted sector in 2025 according to Flowtriq’s State of DDoS 2026 report, accounting for 21.3% of all detected incidents. That puts hosting behind only gaming, which has been the top target for five consecutive years.
The attacks hitting hosting infrastructure are not mostly the record-breaking terabit floods that make security news. According to the same report, 77% of attacks observed were under 10 Gbps. A 3 Gbps flood saturates a shared 1G uplink completely. A 500 Mbps attack on a VPS with a 100 Mbps allocation is just as devastating proportionally. These are the attacks that matter for most hosting customers, and they are the ones that per-IP network-level monitoring consistently underestimates.
Flowtriq installs as a lightweight agent on individual Linux servers. For hosting providers, the question is how you deploy it across your customer base and what you do with the visibility it gives you.
The multi-tenant architecture is built for this. You create a workspace per customer, each with isolated data and its own status page. Your ops team has a unified view across all workspaces. When a customer’s server gets hit, detection fires in under a second, mitigation escalates automatically through local firewall rules, BGP FlowSpec, and cloud scrubbing via Cloudflare Magic Transit, OVH VAC, or Hetzner, and the customer’s status page updates in real time. The customer sees an active incident being handled before they have time to open a support ticket.
The product question for hosting providers is whether to include Flowtriq in existing plans, offer it as a premium tier, or use the white label program at flowtriq.com/white-label to run it as a named product under your own brand.
The bigger argument is retention. Customers whose servers keep going offline under attack without any visible response eventually leave. Customers who watch an attack get detected and mitigated automatically, with a status page they can share with their own users, have a reason to stay.
