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[VPS Addons] Fortinet Hardware Firewall

What is a Managed Fortinet Hardware Firewall?

This is additional hardware that we configure and put into place for your Virtual Private Server. Its main function is to monitor all network traffic that passes through when heading to your server, and it will perform intrusion prevention scanning (Known as IPS). This looks for any potential malicious traffic being submitted back through the network into your server. It can also be configured to block certain IP’s before they even reach the server itself.

Why go with this over software based filtering on the server itself?

We actually recommend both. This provides layered security, which means that if or when one part fails, the other is there to pick up the slack.

Also, when working and configured properly, the external hardware firewall will do most, if not all, of the work. This leaves 100% of the server's resources to focus on serving sites and doing what it needs to do.

So how much of this is managed?

All of it! It’s all included in the price of this add-on. As it’s hardware on our side, it’s fully configured and maintained by us.

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