Hi @wangoloj,

At Datacenter level, DigitalOcean is well-protected. Even if DDoS attack happen to Datacenter, you should still be able to use site normally. There was an answer on Community about measures DigitalOcean takes for Datacenter so you can read them here.

About your server (Droplet)… you’re on your own here. However you can take some additional measures to make it more secure.

CloudFlare is probably best out-of-box solution but if it doesn’t suit your needs you can do some server tweaking.

Set up Firewall. Allow only ports you use. Disable ping requests via firewall to be more protected against that type of attacks.
When you get DDoS attack you can use firewall to block IP ranges.

Research about Load Balancing. That can help take load from one server to multiple and make your site harder to go down.

Also, you can take a look at advanced Logging system so you have better management over server.

For all abode DigitalOcean has great tutorials that can get you help starting.

Regards,
KDSys

Greetings @wangoloj,

From my research and current practices with my DigitalOcean servers, the answer to your question would be, yes. DigitalOcean has a good backbone when it comes to Anti DDoS, believe it or not, slap a few iptables and rate limiting on your VPS and you’ll be set. If you ever need any sort of help against DDoS attacks on your servers, hit me up! I’d be more than glad to help you against skids and put your server in a defense position and ready for every attack.

Feel free to contact me on discord!:

Toxic#0003

Cheers For The Good Guys,
Toxic