Filtering happens before your link fills up
Traffic is inspected and scrubbed at the network edge. Clean requests continue through to your server; the flood gets absorbed upstream where there's capacity built specifically to take it.
DDoS protection
A flood doesn't wait for your firewall to catch up.
By the time hostile traffic reaches your server's own rules, the damage is already done — the upstream link is what fills up first. Advika places hosted services behind Cloudflare-powered network protection so the flood gets absorbed before it ever reaches your origin, not after.
Network-layer filtering
500 Tbps mitigation capacity
Protected by default on every plan
24×7 incident support
Why the server itself can't defend this
Local firewalls solve the wrong layer of the problem.
A volumetric attack doesn't try to break into your application — it just tries to drown the pipe leading to it. Once the link in front of your server saturates, nothing you've configured on the box itself matters, because legitimate traffic can no longer get through to reach those rules in the first place. Mitigation has to happen upstream, before the flood arrives at your door, not at it.
Built in, not bolted on afterward
Protection sits in front of the hosting itself rather than being an add-on you have to remember to configure correctly under pressure, mid-incident.
Useful anywhere uptime is the product
Game servers, APIs, SaaS backends, customer portals and any public-facing site where an hour of downtime is an hour of lost trust, not just lost traffic.
Where the coverage sits
What network protection actually helps with — and what it doesn't.
DDoS mitigation closes one specific, serious gap: the network path to your server. It was never meant to replace patched software, sane access control or a real backup plan, and we won't pretend otherwise.
Volumetric floods
Built around the raw traffic-volume attacks that try to overwhelm the link itself before a single request reaches your application.
Transport-layer attacks
TCP and UDP-based patterns aimed at exposed services get filtered at the network edge, ahead of your application logic ever seeing them.
Traffic steering
Hostile traffic gets routed through mitigation first; legitimate requests keep moving on a clean path to your hosted infrastructure.
Application security is still yours
Rate limiting, WAF rules, authentication and clean code remain necessary on top of network protection — this layer doesn't replace them.
Evidence when you need it
Timestamps, traffic samples and impact details make a real difference when you're reviewing an incident or escalating with us afterward.
Backups are a separate layer
Network protection doesn't undo a bad deploy, a compromised credential or accidental deletion — that's what a real backup policy is for.
Before you ask sales
Plain answers, not a sales pitch.
Does this make my server immune to attacks?
No, and anyone who tells you otherwise is overselling. What it does is reduce your exposure significantly and give hostile traffic a much shorter path to being filtered out, rather than leaving your origin to absorb the full weight of an attack alone.
Is this on every plan, or something I have to add?
Cloudflare-powered network protection sits in front of Advika's hosting by default. Higher-traffic or higher-risk deployments can be discussed case by case — tell us the workload and we'll size the right configuration for it.
Do I still need to back up my own data?
Yes. Network protection defends the path to your server, not what happens to your data once traffic legitimately arrives. See our backup policy for what's covered and what's on you.
Will this slow down legitimate traffic?
Filtering happens at the network edge in the normal request path, not as a separate detour, so real visitors generally don't notice it's there. The goal is a shorter path for good traffic and a dead end for bad traffic, not the reverse.