General information about DDoS protection
A DDoS attack is a distributed denial-of-service attack. Sends a large number of requests to the attacked service in order to reduce its performance or disable it completely.
All Selectel products are by default protected against Selectel DDoS attacks. Protection is provided at the network and transport (L3, L4) layers. Incoming traffic is analyzed, unwanted traffic flows from the external network are blocked.


For additional protection of the service, you can select other types of protection (DDoS Guard L3-L4 protection, analyzing incoming and outgoing traffic, as well as L7 protection). The type of protection is determined by the DDoS attacks from which the service should be protected.


All presented DDoS protection services can be activated only for IP addresses that are used in Selectel infrastructure.
Types of protection
Protection should be selected depending on the network layer targeted by the attack — network and transport layer (L3, L4), application layer (L7). Learn more about the types of DDoS attacks at different levels and how to protect against them in the Selectel blog article How to protect your server from DDoS attacks.