Itnetic TechnologiesComparison
The WEDOS Protection alternative that puts Layer 7 on the free plan
Itnetic is a WEDOS Protection alternative for Layer-7 DDoS mitigation, WAF and CDN, operated from the Czech Republic. Both are EU providers — the difference is where the tier line falls. On Itnetic, application-layer mitigation, the full WAF, per-request logs, the API and the waiting room are on every plan, including the free one.
WEDOS and Itnetic are the same kind of answer to the same problem: a European operator, a proxy in front of your origin, EU data handling, and no need to send your traffic across the Atlantic to be filtered. If you are comparing the two, you are almost certainly not comparing continents.
What you are comparing is the tier line. On WEDOS Protection's published price list, the free plan carries L3/L4 protection and full Layer-7 protection arrives with Pro; the free plan is capped at 5 custom WAF rules, 1 hour of log retention, 1 hour of analytics, 1 backend origin, 1 administrator and no API, with wildcard subdomains, JA4 fingerprinting and advanced bot detection sitting on the paid tiers.
Itnetic has one product and every plan gets all of it. Layer-7 mitigation, managed and custom WAF rules, IP reputation, rate limiting, waiting room, per-request logs, 30-day analytics, origin load balancing, the CDN and the public API are on the free plan exactly as they are on the €1,000 plan. Plans differ by how many domains you point at us and how much legitimate traffic we deliver — nothing else, and attack traffic is never metered.
The table below compares capabilities only. It makes no claim about anyone's pricing, speed, capacity or network size — just what you can turn on, and on which plan.
Feature comparison
Itnetic vs WEDOS Protection: what each plan includes
Availability by plan, from each vendor's public documentation and price list. Capabilities only — no pricing or performance claims.
| Capability | Itnetic | WEDOS Protection |
|---|---|---|
| Layer-7 (application-layer) DDoS mitigation | Every plan, including free | Paid plans — free plan is documented as L3/L4 |
| Volumetric L3/L4 absorption | Included — upstream backbone | Every plan |
| Managed OWASP WAF filters | Every plan, including free | Every plan |
| Custom WAF rules | Every plan, including free — no rule cap published | Plan-dependent — 5 rules on free, 100 on Pro |
| IP reputation filtering | Every plan | Plan-dependent |
| Client fingerprint matching | Every plan — path, header and TLS signature | Plan-dependent — JA4 documented on paid tiers |
| Verified-bot allowlist | Every plan | Plan-dependent |
| CAPTCHA-free challenge for real visitors | Every plan — proof-of-work, no puzzles | Plan-dependent |
| Adaptive under-attack detection (automatic) | Every plan — trips at the edge in seconds | Plan-dependent |
| Rate limiting | Every plan | Plan-dependent |
| Waiting room / virtual queue | Every plan, including free | Not listed in the published feature set |
| Per-request logs (TLS, client fingerprint, WAF verdict) | Every plan | Plan-dependent retention — 1 hour on free, 1 week on Pro |
| Traffic & attack analytics | 24-hour, 7-day and 30-day windows on every plan | Plan-dependent — 1 hour on free, 30 days on Pro |
| Public REST API | Every plan, including free | Paid plans |
| Wildcard subdomain coverage | Every plan — subdomain count by plan | Paid plans |
| Global CDN caching | Every plan | Every plan |
| Automatic TLS certificates | Every plan | Every plan |
| Bring-your-own PEM certificate | Every plan | Plan-dependent |
| Origin load balancing with failover | Every plan — up to 8 origins | Plan-dependent — 1 origin on free, 5 on Pro |
| Private bucket origins (AWS SigV4 signing) | Every plan | Not listed in the published feature set |
| Real-time attack alerts | Every plan — Discord and email | Plan-dependent |
| Team members / administrators | Every plan | Plan-dependent — 1 on free, 3 on Pro |
| Onboarding | Two DNS records — your nameservers stay where they are | DNS-based onboarding |
| Operator and data controller | Czech Republic (EU) | EU — Luxembourg headquarters, Czech roots |
About this comparison
Compiled from WEDOS's own public feature and price-list pages on 6 August 2026, and describing feature availability by plan at that date. Plan contents change — check WEDOS's current pages before making a decision. WEDOS and WEDOS Protection are trademarks of their respective owner; Itnetic Technologies is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by WEDOS. This page makes no claim about any provider's pricing, performance, capacity or availability.
Both are EU — so compare the tier line, not the jurisdiction
The usual reason to pick a European provider is GDPR posture and the ability to talk to someone in your own time zone, and both of these services clear that bar. That makes jurisdiction the wrong axis to decide on. What actually separates them is which capabilities are gated: on WEDOS's published price list, Layer-7 protection, the API, wildcard subdomains, longer log retention and additional origins are what you move up a tier for. On Itnetic, none of those are tier-gated at all.
- Itnetic plans differ by domain count, subdomain count and delivered bandwidth. Nothing else.
- Attack traffic is scrubbed outside your bandwidth quota, on every plan.
- The free plan is not a demo — it is the same edge, the same pipeline, the same protections.
Layer-7 mitigation on the free plan, not the paid one
Volumetric floods are the easy half of the problem — they are loud, and the backbone absorbs them. The attacks that actually take small sites down look like visitors: slow-drip request floods, credential stuffing, fake checkouts, scrapers rotating through residential addresses. That is Layer 7, and it is precisely the layer a free tier tends not to cover. Itnetic profiles every request by path, header shape and TLS fingerprint, and flips a host into challenge mode within a second of a spike, at the edge, without waiting for a control-plane round trip.
- Behavioral signatures match the shape of an attack, not just its volume.
- Repeat offenders are dropped in the kernel, so they cost nothing per request.
- Real visitors solve an invisible proof-of-work — never a CAPTCHA, never an image grid.
- An anomaly layer learns each host's own baseline, so a large site is never punished for being large.
Per-request logs and 30-day analytics without an upgrade
An hour of log retention tells you a site is under attack. It does not tell you what happened last Tuesday, and it cannot show you the pattern behind a scraper that comes back every night. Itnetic keeps per-request logs on every plan — each entry carrying the TLS fingerprint, the client signature, the cookie echo class, the WAF verdict, the cache result and the origin timing — with 24-hour, 7-day and 30-day analytics windows on the free plan as well as the paid ones.
A waiting room, on the free plan
A virtual queue is the one capability people discover they need at the exact moment they cannot arrange one: a ticket drop, a launch, a restock. Itnetic includes a waiting room on every plan. You set the number of concurrent sessions your origin can carry; everyone above it gets a queue page with their position and an estimated wait, ordered identically across every point of presence. A queue position costs a bot the same proof-of-work a challenge does, so the line itself cannot be flooded.
EU operation you can read end to end
Itnetic is operated from the Czech Republic by a named individual you can email directly. There is a Data Processing Addendum, a published sub-processor list, a documented retention policy where every stated period is enforced by a database TTL index rather than a clean-up job, and an incident response policy — all published in full rather than available on request.
- Operator: Petr Chlíbek, IČO 21210756, Czech Republic.
- Edge points of presence in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific.
- DPA, sub-processors, retention and incident-response policies published in full.
Switching from WEDOS Protection
Both services sit in front of your origin as a reverse proxy, so migration is a DNS change rather than a re-architecture. Add the domain, verify it, point two records — your nameservers and registrar stay where they are, which also means you can move one hostname across and leave the rest of the zone alone while you watch it behave. Per-request logs let you confirm the cutover actually happened instead of assuming it.
FAQ
WEDOS Protection alternatives: common questions
What is the best WEDOS Protection alternative?
If the reason you are looking is that a capability you need sits above the plan you are on — Layer-7 protection, the API, wildcard subdomains, longer log retention or more than one origin — Itnetic includes all of them on every plan, free included. If what you need is WEDOS's wider product family around the protection, such as their Anycast DNS, hosting or their managed NIS2 offering, Itnetic does not sell those and you should weigh that.
Is there a free WEDOS alternative?
Yes. The Itnetic Starter plan is free, needs no card, and includes one domain with 2 GB of delivered traffic per month — with the same Layer-7 DDoS mitigation, WAF, waiting room, per-request logs, API and CDN as every paid plan. Attack traffic is not counted against that quota.
Does the WEDOS free plan include Layer-7 protection?
According to WEDOS's own published price list as checked on 6 August 2026, the free plan is documented as L3/L4 protection, with full Layer-7 protection on Pro and above. Plan contents change, so check their current price list before deciding. On Itnetic, Layer-7 mitigation is on every plan including the free one.
Is Itnetic cheaper than WEDOS?
That is the wrong comparison to draw from a feature page, because it depends on which plan each of you would need. The structural difference is what you are paying for: Itnetic plans differ only by domain count, subdomain count and delivered bandwidth, so you never move up a tier to unlock a capability. Current numbers are on the pricing page.
Are both WEDOS and Itnetic GDPR-compliant EU providers?
Both are European operators, which is why jurisdiction is usually not the deciding factor between them. Itnetic publishes its Data Processing Addendum, sub-processor list, retention policy and incident response policy in full, and every retention period stated in those documents is enforced by a database TTL index rather than a scheduled clean-up job.
Do I have to change my nameservers to use Itnetic?
No. Setup is two DNS records at whatever DNS provider you use today. That also lets you migrate one hostname at a time instead of moving an entire zone in one step.
Is Itnetic a good WEDOS alternative for WordPress and e-shops?
Yes. The endpoints attackers actually flood — xmlrpc.php, wp-login.php, admin-ajax.php, unbounded search queries and checkout endpoints — are exactly what custom WAF rules and rate limits are for, and there is no cap on custom rules or a paid tier to reach first. Edge caching absorbs the read traffic a security plugin running inside PHP never gets the chance to.
Does Itnetic protect APIs as well as websites?
Yes, and without breaking machine clients. API paths can be marked so they are defended with per-client rate limits and behavioral signatures instead of browser challenges, and they answer with 429 or 403 status codes rather than an HTML interstitial your client cannot parse.
Is attack traffic billed against my bandwidth?
No. Scrubbed attack traffic is never metered, on any plan. Only legitimate, delivered traffic counts toward your quota.
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