Distributed Denial of Services attacks, or DDoS as they are commonly known as, are among the most common threats that can take a website or even an entire server offline. A present-day system administrator is expected not only to handle hardware or software issues, but also to have solid security skills and to be able to protect servers from attacks. If you administer your own WHM server, you will also benefit from the below article, in which we explore some simple methods to avoid downtime, using the free tools available in the WHM/cPanel hosting platform.