The Effects of a DDoS Attack

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If you are running a campaign (which may have made you more vulnerable due to the additional publicity), then it will be especially important to ensure that your site remains operational and not waste time dealing with the attack when you could be focusing on campaign activity. That is why it is crucial to take the following steps to protect your site from a politically motivated DDoS attack.

A DDoS attack can have a variety of effects, depending on the nature of the attack and how prepared you are for it.

1. Website Downtime
The most immediate and obvious effect is that your website albania phone number databecomes overwhelmed and unavailable.

This means that any business you gain through your website will be unavailable to you until you get the site up and running again. It also affects your reputation as a website owner. And if you don't fix the site quickly, it can affect your SEO, since if Google crawls your site and finds it down, you'll lose rank.

If your site is unavailable due to being overloaded, it will return a 502 bad gateway error, which will negatively impact your search rankings if you allow it to remain that way for too long.

I've also seen attacks where the site has been unavailable for several days (because the owner didn't know how to fix it and hadn't kept a backup - more of which in a short time), and when the site came back online, all internal links from that site's Google listing had been lost.

2. Server and Hosting Issues
If your site is subject to regular attacks that you don't take steps to mitigate, this could lead to problems with your hosting provider.

A good hosting provider will give you tools to secure your site against DDoS attacks but if you don't have this and are on shared hosting, attacks can affect other sites on the same server.