Owner and CEO Ronald Linco, formerly a systems administrator and web developer, founded KoDDoS in 2009. The company’s offerings are aimed at customers who require high-end hosting with customised protection against DDoS attacks. KoDDoS’s shared, VPS, reseller and dedicated server web hosting packages utilise proprietary protection against attacks such as HTTP, HTTPS, TCP and UDP floods and DNS amplification attacks. Domain name registration services and SSL certificates are also available. With a satellite office in the United States, the company’s head office and datacentre are situated in the Netherlands, near Amsterdam. The carrier neutral datacentre is serviced by four fibre backbones, and utilises Juniper equipment with Intel Xeon processors and RAID 10 hardware. The facility is staffed, monitored and recorded around the clock, and secured with two-factor access control and a 10 000 volt electric fence. Fire detection and suppression systems are in place, and cooling systems maintain a temperature of 23°C. There is enough fuel onsite to power the emergency generators for over 100 hours. All of KoDDos’s hosting packages come with a 99.99% uptime guarantee. Each of the four shared web hosting packages on offer includes unlimited FTP, email and MySQL, as do the four shared reseller hosting packages. The four dedicated server web hosting packages include 1Gbps network interface, up to 100TB bandwidth and full remote console access via IPMI or iDRAC. The four OpenVZ VPS hosting packages are branded as offering more freedom and content of speech, and are offered on a separate website called KoVPSLayer. Qualified and experienced support technicians, who must pass internal exams to join the staff, are available around the clock via telephone, email, LiveChat or a ticketing system. The website can be accessed in different languages, and features a knowledgebase and network speed testing facility.