Gladius - Enhancing the Speed and Security for Online Businesses
DDoS attacks have been a common event in the online space especially in the last decade. In such cyberattack, the perpetrator overloads website of the victim. For a large sized company, such an attack will cause damages up to $500000. On average, each attack lasts more than 6 hours. It causes annoying downtime and PR disaster. More than half the websites on World Wide Web will face a DDoS attack at some point. 300,000 DDoS attacks happened in this year alone. The attacks caused a damage of $150 billion.
Gladius is all set to increase the speed and security of websites. Users rent their spare bandwidth and processing power and get rewarded in tokens. Users can use the tokens to gain access to a private, secure and decentralized hosting network. The network spans across thousands of devices worldwide. Using collective power of the network, Gladius creates fast and safe environment. It decreases load time while fighting DDoS attacks.
Objectives:
• Phase 1 is all about building initial content distribution plus DDoS protection network. By creating CDN and DDoS protection services, the first phase completion will be achieved. The services will be backed by blockchain technology, smart contracts and distributed mining pools. Yep, people can conduct mining in the Gladius ecosystem.
• Phase 2 aims to scale up the network till it can be presented commercially. Once phase one is successfully completed, it can be made available commercially on large scale. It starts with increasing amount of data throughput. Node pools will be enhanced with complete vetting. It is all done to cope with the larger demand.
Gladius platform:
The primary objective of Gladius is to build a peer to peer, decentralized, server less node network. Anyone can download the Gladius peer client in background. By running it in background, they rent out spare bandwidth and storage space. They are rewarded with GLA tokens for this action. The client nodes can be opened in any of the Windows, Linux and Mac devices. Websites looking for protection can create account on the company’s website.
Scope for DDoS protection services:
• Increasing risks of cyber-attacks desperately require DDoS litigation services. Valuable information and services comes under great risk.
• Many DDoS protection services are already available online, but not necessarily as an economical solution. The cyber world needs serious solutions to tackle the unfavorable market conditions.
• Government interests in protection services offers a world of opportunities for commercial services such as Gladius. Numerous attacks to the government databases have brought the unnecessary changes in their policies.
GLA tokens and crowdsale:
GLA is the official Ethereum based token of the company. 96.3million tokens will be sold in a private presale. The public ICO starts on 1st November. Contributors are entitled to 20% bonus on day 1 of the ICO. All contributions in the first week receive a 5% bonus. Contributions on successive weeks will get 3% and 1% bonuses. GLA tokens are valued at 0.0002 ETH. 60% of the total token supply is allocated for public release. Getting in early during the ICO makes sure, you hold more tokens for your investment. There is limited number of coins which will not be issued after the crowdsale.
Conclusion and Official Links:
Gladius is a revolutionary concept providing real world solutions against the Ddos and other cyber attacks. It will cater to large market of millions of websites and online businesses moreover, regular users can also earn rewards by renting their free storage. I see all positive things in the project, I am sure Gladius will become an outstanding product.
Find all the important links related to Gladius project below:
Website: http://gladius.io/
Whitepaper: https://gladius.io/pdf/gladius-whitepaper.pdf
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gladiusio
Twitter: https://twitter.com/gladiusIO
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