A Wall in the Storm: What a Turkish Provider Inoxweb Was Looking for All Along

Sometimes, the only way to find the right answer is to rule out all the wrong ones. Inoxweb, a Turkish hosting provider, learned this the hard way while searching for reliable DDoS protection.

In this success story, we show how that experience led Inoxweb to StormWall — and what changed once the right protection was finally in place.

Customer: Inoxweb

Inoxweb is a fast-growing Turkish provider offering cloud solutions, dedicated servers, and web hosting services. Although the company was officially founded in 2023, its team has over 12 years of experience in the IT sector.

Inoxweb’s client base includes a large number of industrial enterprises, as well as e-commerce and CRM projects, for which uninterrupted service is critically important.

Business Challenge: A Cyberwar of Attrition

On March 14, 2025, at 03:59, Inoxweb’s infrastructure was hit by its first major DDoS attack. This incident marked the beginning of an exhausting series of attacks, during which the attackers employed sophisticated techniques such as DNS amplification and, in particular, TCP SYN ACK flooding. The attacks were deliberately aimed at disrupting ports 80 and 443 on customer websites.

The attackers were able to identify domains within Inoxweb’s subnet and verify the effectiveness of their attacks in real time. Every minute of downtime resulted in direct financial losses and reputational damage for dozens of corporate clients.

Solution: A Costly Path of Trial and Error

Before finding an effective solution, the Inoxweb team went through a series of costly and inefficient attempts to protect their infrastructure on their own.

Stage 1: A Hardware Firewall

The first response was to deploy a powerful physical firewall. However, it quickly became clear that even specialized hardware was unable to cope with the scale and complexity of modern DDoS traffic. The firewall itself turned into a bottleneck and a single point of failure.

Stage 2: Hiring Expensive Experts

Determined not to give up, Inoxweb brought in a highly qualified specialist to fine-tune the firewall configuration. Despite extensive efforts and rule optimization, the core issue remained unchanged: the device simply could not absorb and process terabits of junk traffic without affecting legitimate users.

Stage 3: Scaling Capacity Head-On

Following a traditional approach, the company attempted to solve the problem by increasing resources. Data center uplink bandwidth was significantly expanded. The outcome was predictable and disappointing: the attacks scaled along with the bandwidth, becoming even more powerful and even more expensive to mitigate. This approach turned into a financial arms race that the provider was destined to lose.

Stage 4: Testing Mass-Market Protection Services

Inoxweb then tested several well-known cloud-based anti-DDoS services available on the market. These solutions also failed to deliver the expected results. Their protection algorithms were too aggressive, blocking legitimate customer traffic and effectively causing the same outages as the attacks themselves. Instead of solving the problem, these services created an entirely new one.

After numerous unsuccessful attempts to find a working solution, Inoxweb decided to test StormWall for Networks. Given the negative experience with previous providers, the decisive factor in this choice was the promise — and, as it later turned out, the reality — of instant, professional technical support, confirmed by recommendations from colleagues at other companies.

“It’s a pity we didn’t try StormWall from the very beginning. It would have saved us stress, money, and our reputation,” says Mustafa Güneş, Manager, Inoxweb LTD.

Deployment: Simplicity and Immediate Results

The connection to StormWall’s network protection service was completed on November 28 with the active involvement of StormWall’s NOC team. Unlike the previous attempts, the process was described as simple, transparent, and stable.

The attacks persisted, yet the situation was now under control. Thanks to 24/7 support and rapid intervention by StormWall’s technical team, every attack was immediately detected and neutralized at the perimeter, without ever reaching Inoxweb’s infrastructure.

Results: 100,000,000 Points Out of 10

Since deploying StormWall, Inoxweb has completely avoided critical downtime. The solution successfully mitigated extremely powerful attacks, with peak volumes reaching 305 Gbps and 100 million packets per second — levels that would previously have guaranteed a total service outage.

Inoxweb’s clients, finally able to breathe a sigh of relief, expressed sincere gratitude for the final resolution of the problem.

“I would rate StormWall 100,000,000 out of 10. If you don’t want to suddenly open your laptop during a romantic dinner with your spouse and struggle to analyze and block an incoming attack, then work with StormWall,” adds Mustafa Güneş, Manager at Inoxweb Ltd., with a sense of humor.