Built to Take the Hit: How Indian Hosting Provider Advika Withstood More Than 1,000 DDoS Attacks in 1 Day 

For a hosting and infrastructure provider, network availability isn’t just important — it’s the foundation of the business. When a data center goes offline, every service that depends on it goes down too: websites, business applications, email platforms, gaming servers, and countless other digital services. Every minute of downtime can mean lost revenue, frustrated customers, and lasting damage to a provider’s reputation.

This is precisely why DDoS attacks have become one of the most significant operational risks for hosting companies across India and the wider Asia-Pacific region. In 2025, the number of DDoS attacks in APAC rose by 106% year over year, and during the spike in regional tensions in May 2025, the number of organizations targeted in India alone grew by more than 500%.

Against this backdrop, hosting providers face growing pressure to keep services available  as attacks become larger, more frequent, and more sophisticated. 

In this case study, we share how StormWall helped Advika Data Center Services Pvt Ltd keep its infrastructure — and its customers’ services — online during a wave of more than 1,000 DDoS attacks in a single day, several of which exceeded 40 Gbps. 

At a glance

Customer / Industry	Advika Data Center Services Pvt Ltd — hosting and infrastructure provider, India
Our services	StormWall for Networks — cloud-based DDoS protection via BGP
Protected resources	VPS hosting, dedicated servers, cloud solutions, and enterprise network services across Jaipur, Noida, and Mumbai

Customer: Advika Data Center Services Pvt Ltd

Advika Data Center Services Pvt Ltd is an Indian hosting and infrastructure provider delivering VPS hosting, dedicated servers, colocation services, cloud solutions, and enterprise network services to organizations across India.

With infrastructure deployed across multiple locations — including Jaipur, Noida, and Mumbai — the company serves customers who depend on high availability and uninterrupted connectivity to run their daily operations.

For these customers, Advika’s network is where everything begins. Websites, enterprise applications, VPS environments, dedicated servers, and gaming platforms all share the same expectation: they must stay online and accessible at all times.

Challenge: Keeping Services Online Amid Growing DDoS Threats

The defining moment came in May 2026. Over the course of a single day, Advika’s infrastructure was targeted by more than 1,000 DDoS attacks. Several exceeded 40 Gbps and lasted two to three hours, placing sustained pressure on the network.

Without a dedicated mitigation platform, attacks of that scale could have saturated network links, disrupted customer services, and caused widespread outages across the company’s hosting environment.

But May 2026 was not an isolated incident — it was the culmination of a trend that had been building for years. Across India’s hosting industry, providers have seen a sharp increase in DDoS activity aimed at hosting platforms, cloud environments, gaming infrastructure, and enterprise networks. By the time Advika approached StormWall, the company was regularly facing L3-L4 attacks against both its own infrastructure and customer-facing services:

• UDP floods
• TCP floods
• Reflection and amplification attacks
• Large-scale volumetric attacks
• Multi-vector attack campaigns

Traditional firewall-based mitigation and local traffic filtering had reached their limits. Effective against smaller incidents, they could no longer cope with the attack volumes that modern hosting environments now face. Advika needed a platform capable of neutralizing high-volume attacks before they reached customers or disrupted critical services.

“As a hosting provider, network availability is everything we sell. Once attacks started crossing 40 Gbps and arriving by the thousand, it was clear that firewalls and local filtering were no longer enough — we needed a platform built to absorb attacks at that scale,” says Sharad Rathi, Founder & CEO, Advika Data Center Services Pvt Ltd.

Solution: Why Advika Chose StormWall

After evaluating several DDoS mitigation providers, Advika selected StormWall. Several factors shaped the decision.

First, the company needed enterprise-grade mitigation capable of handling massive traffic volumes without affecting legitimate users, combined with always-on protection that could detect and stop attacks immediately instead of relying on manual activation during an incident. 

Architecture mattered just as much. Our network protection platform is built for hosting providers, cloud operators, and infrastructure companies, which made it a natural fit for Advika’s operations.

Support for BGP integration, a straightforward deployment process, and a responsive technical team completed the picture. Together, we set a simple objective: keep services available, even during large-scale attack campaigns.

“We looked at multiple vendors, but StormWall was the one clearly built for providers like us. The ability to mitigate large volumetric attacks, the always-on model, and the BGP-based approach matched our infrastructure exactly,” explains Sharad Rathi.

Deployment: Seamless Protection Without Service Disruption

We integrated StormWall’s network protection directly into Advika’s infrastructure using BGP-based routing. Incoming traffic is continuously analyzed and filtered before it reaches the protected network: malicious traffic is identified and dropped in real time, while legitimate traffic passes through untouched.

Throughout deployment, our technical specialists worked closely with Advika’s engineering team to optimize routing policies, configure filtering rules, and fine-tune network performance. Particular attention was paid to ensuring that protection remained completely transparent to end users — the goal was not only to stop attacks, but to preserve speed and reliability for genuine traffic under any conditions.

The rollout was completed quickly and with minimal disruption. No major infrastructure redesign was required, and there were no extended maintenance windows or customer-facing downtime. By the end of the deployment, Advika had a fully integrated protection layer ready to withstand large-scale attacks the moment they appeared.

Results: Delivering Continuous Availability Without Customer Downtime 

When the attack campaign struck in May 2026, the value of that preparation became immediately clear. Across that single day of more than 1,000 attacks, StormWall mitigated the malicious traffic in real time. Despite the volume and duration of the attacks, Advika’s infrastructure remained stable, customer-facing services continued to operate normally, and no significant downtime occurred. 

Most importantly, the businesses relying on Advika were able to keep operating without disruption while the attacks were still underway.

Following deployment, Advika achieved the following:

• Improved network stability
• A significant reduction in attack-related downtime
• Better infrastructure availability
• Faster response to large-scale attacks
• Reduced operational impact during attack events
• Greater customer confidence in the reliability of their services

For a hosting provider, that last point matters as much as the technical metrics. Customers entrust these companies with business-critical applications and services, and consistent uptime directly shapes their satisfaction and long-term trust. After deployment, Advika’s customers — from website and enterprise application operators to VPS, dedicated server, and gaming platform users — reported greater service stability and increased confidence in the underlying infrastructure.

This reinforced Advika’s position in a market where uptime is often the decisive differentiator. 

“During May 2026, our infrastructure faced more than 1,000 DDoS attacks within a single day, including multiple attacks exceeding 40 Gbps that lasted for several hours. StormWall successfully mitigated every attack without causing customer downtime. Their platform has become a critical part of our infrastructure security strategy and enables us to deliver reliable hosting services even during large-scale attack events,” says Sharad Rathi, Founder & CEO, Advika Data Center Services Pvt Ltd.

Conclusion: Reliable Protection for Business-Critical Networks

For organizations where uptime and network availability are business-critical, dedicated DDoS protection is no longer optional. Hosting providers, data centers, cloud companies, gaming infrastructure operators, ISPs, and enterprises facing recurring attacks need protection that can neutralize increasingly sophisticated threats and scale to keep pace with rising attack volumes across India and the wider APAC region.

By combining always-on protection, high-capacity mitigation, and seamless BGP integration, StormWall helps these organizations remain available during sustained attack campaigns, protect their customers, and focus on growth rather than service disruptions.