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. If you get one of these, you likely won't need an additional provider.
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 won'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 to your server and players, even at higher pricing. Best options, both free and paid, are NeoProtect, TCPShield and Infinity Filter.
I've been using Infinity Filter since it started and it's probably the most affordable and at the same time still a very reliable service.
- Website
- Locations: Germany, France, Montreal, Poland
- Pricing type: Subscription
- Supports Bedrock (Geyser): Yes
- Free plan: Yes
- Cheapest paid plan: €2.99 / mo.
- Anti VPN: Yes
- Proximity & Voice plugins: PlasmoVoice & SimpleVoiceChat
- Recommended: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
NeoProtect is a very stable service with lots of features and fast suport.
- Website
- Locations: Germany, Vint Hill (US)
- Pricing type: Subscription
- Supports Bedrock (Geyser): Yes
- Free plan: Yes
- Cheapest paid plan: €15 / mo.
- Anti VPN: Yes
- Proximity & Voice plugins: PlasmoVoice & SimpleVoiceChat
- Recommended: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
TCPShield is the most popular name when it comes to Minecraft DDoS protection, operating since 2015. It is a good reliable solution.
- Website
- Locations: Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, Dallas, Ashburn, Tokyo, Singapore, Seoul, Sydney and Poland, Miami and France available after contacting support
- Pricing type: Subscription
- Supports Bedrock (Geyser): Yes
- Free plan: Yes
- Cheapest paid plan: $25 / mo.
- 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
- Cheapest paid plan: Pay-as-you-go
- Anti VPN: No
- Proximity & Voice plugins: No
- 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. However, in terms of stability it's not the most reliable.
- 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
- Cheapest paid plan: $30 / mo.
- Anti VPN: No
- Proximity & Voice plugins: Yes
- Recommended: ⭐⭐⭐
Arvoris is Papyrus's budget-focused Minecraft reverse proxy. It combines Cloudflare Spectrum anycast with Cryo Layer 7 filtering, CryoLimbo verification, firewall rules, real client IP forwarding, load balancing, analytics and attack alerts.
- Website
- Locations: Miami, New York, Frankfurt, Warsaw, Tel Aviv, Singapore and Tokyo, backed by Cloudflare's global anycast network
- Pricing type: Subscription
- Supports Bedrock (Geyser): Not currently documented
- Free plan: Yes, for one network, one backend and up to 15 players
- Cheapest paid plan: $10 / mo.
- EnderDash coupon:
ENDERDASHfor 10% off the first 3 months - Anti VPN: Yes
- Proximity & Voice plugins: No
- Recommended: ⭐⭐
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