Short answer
A DDoS attack floods a site with traffic from many machines at once so real visitors cannot get through. It is a availability attack, not a break-in — nothing is stolen, the site simply stops responding.
This is a general web-hosting explanation, not specific to Traxio.
Small sites are rarely targeted deliberately; what they usually see is aggressive bot traffic that behaves similarly. Putting Cloudflare in front of the site is the practical defence available on shared hosting, and the free plan includes it.
Learn more
- Using Cloudflare with Traxio hostingHow to put Cloudflare in front of a Traxio site: DNS records to create, the right SSL mode, keeping email records unproxied, and avoiding redirect loops.
- “508 Resource Limit Is Reached” and slowdowns under loadWhat a 508 or resource limit error means, how to find what’s consuming CPU, memory or processes, and the fixes that stop it recurring.
- Website security basics for small sitesThe handful of habits that prevent most website compromises on shared hosting: updates, logins, permissions, HTTPS, backups and fewer moving parts.