Find out how to stop any DDoS attacks from harming your Minecraft Server.
DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks can start lagging your sever and make everyone's ping higher or they can fully take your server down and kick everyone. There are many ways to protect yourself against these attacks and in this guide you will find out how to and which option is the best for you.
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If you have a private server for your friends, then you don't need any sort of DDoS protection (unless your friends are crazy) and your host might already have some out of the box. Servers that are open to the public, even the ones with 20 players, can be targets of attacks. It also depends if you have some sort of competition or if someone really dislikes you. Sometimes attackers stop after few hours and they don't come back. There isn't a perfect way to determine if you need protection but if your server has been taking hits quite often recently or you're having a big launch and you can't have any downtime, then it's worth the extra money, time and effort to protect your server.
These are some dedicated server providers which come with good DDoS protection out of the box.
- Tempest (Path.net) - great
- OVH - medium
- CosmicGuard - great
- Bloom.host - medium
- BerryByte (CosmicGuard) - great
- PufferFish (CosmicGuard) - great
These services have an easy to use panel and they're the best option for most of servers. All servers with five stars have great protection and you likely wouldn't have any challenges with DDoS attacks. What can vary from protection to protection is the distance from their servers to your server, as well as the stability and the ping of the connection for the players. Prioritize choosing close locations, even at higher pricing. Panel and its features are other things you could look into it.
NeoProtect is a very stable service (great uptime) with lots of features. Along with Papyrus, I would recommend them for the best protection.
- Website
- Locations: Frankfurt, Paris, Marseille, London, Madrid, Bucharest, Warsaw, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Chicago, Ashburn, Miami, Los Angeles, Dallas, Seattle
- Pricing type: Subscription
- Supports Bedrock (Geyser): Yes
- Free plan: Yes
- Anti VPN: Yes
- Proximity & Voice plugins: PlasmoVoice & SimpleVoiceChat
- Recommended: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Papyrus is the only option that offers such many locations accessibly. Their filters can be also used to protect your website, voice chat, TeamSpeak, etc.
- Website
- Locations: New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Frankfurt, Prague, Tokyo, Singapore or 330+ on Enterprise Plan
- Pricing type: Subscription
- Supports Bedrock (Geyser): Yes
- Free plan: No
- Anti VPN: No
- Proximity & Voice plugins: Yes
- Recommended: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
I've been personally using Infinity Filter in the past and overall it is a decent service.
- Website
- Locations: Germany, France, Canada (Montreal)
- Pricing type: One Time + Pay-as-you-go
- Supports Bedrock (Geyser): Yes
- Free plan: Yes
- Anti VPN: Yes
- Proximity & Voice plugins: PlasmoVoice & SimpleVoiceChat
- Recommended: ⭐⭐⭐
CosmicGuard is likely the most expensive service at scale, unless you get unlimited usage by getting a dedicated server with them.
- Website
- Locations: Ashburn, Dallas, LA, London, Amsterdam
- Pricing type: Pay-as-you-go
- Supports Bedrock (Geyser): Yes
- Free plan: No
- Anti VPN: No
- Proximity & Voice plugins: No
- Recommended: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
TCPShield is the most popular name when it comes to Minecraft DDoS protection, however it is far from the best pick. Even for the large networks or events, I would recommend consulting with NeoProtect or Papyrus instead, as they will offer more locations, better stability and better prices.
- Website
- Locations: Germany, France, Canada (Montreal)
- Pricing type: Subscription
- Supports Bedrock (Geyser): Yes
- Free plan: Yes
- Anti VPN: No
- Proximity & Voice plugins: PlasmoVoice & SimpleVoiceChat
- Recommended: ⭐⭐⭐
Arvoris is made by the Papyrus team. It is a new project, with the goal of offering unlimited usage DDoS protection for your Minecraft server at only $9.99 / month.
- Website
- Locations: New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Frankfurt, Prague, Tokyo and Singapore
- Pricing type: Subscription
- Supports Bedrock (Geyser): Yes
- Free plan: No
- Anti VPN: No
- Proximity & Voice plugins: No
- Recommended: ⭐⭐⭐
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