SYN floods have been around forever, and honestly, they’re still one of the best ways for attackers to knock servers offline. The trick is simple: attackers blast your server with a ton of TCP SYN packets, but never finish the handshake. Your server ends up stuck, waiting on connections that never really start, eating up memory and connection slots until everything slows to a crawl—or just crashes. For web hosts and anyone running control panels, this means slow sites, broken services, and, yeah, unhappy customers. This is exactly where cPGuard …