There’s a pattern I see repeatedly when talking to website owners who’ve been taken offline by a DDoS attack: they treat the incident as a technical problem. They call their hosting support, wait for the attack to subside, and move on. Nobody files a report. Nobody preserves evidence. The attacker faces zero consequences. That cycle […]

RakNet protocol floods are a targeted threat to self-hosted FiveM and RedM servers that standard firewall rules often miss. Combining nftables payload inspection, connection cookie enforcement, and DataPacket BGP scrubbing gives server owners a layered defense that works.

Lantronix Device Server amplification attacks can devastate self-hosted Path of Titans servers by flooding them with unwanted UDP traffic on port 30718. This guide covers iptables filtering, Lantronix hardening, and Lumen DDoS Hyper upstream scrubbing to keep your game server online.

STUN/TURN reflection attacks can weaponize your coturn server against your own Soulmask dedicated server if left misconfigured. This guide covers iptables ingress filtering, coturn credential hardening, and CDN77 upstream BGP scrubbing to shut down amplification attacks at every layer.

DTLS amplification attacks on Mumble servers are a growing threat for FiveM roleplay communities. This guide covers iptables rate limiting, Murmur certificate hardening, and BGP scrubbing to keep your voice server online.

Self-hosted Foxhole servers using OpenVPN UDP are vulnerable to amplification DDoS attacks that can overwhelm your server with fake handshake requests. This guide covers iptables rate limiting, tls-auth HMAC hardening, and Voxility BGP scrubbing to defend against these attacks effectively.

WinRM reflection amplification attacks are an underappreciated threat to self-hosted Arma Reforger servers. This guide walks through iptables port filtering, WinRM hardening, and upstream BGP scrubbing with Deflect to keep your server online.

CoAP amplification attacks can overwhelm self-hosted Barotrauma servers by exploiting exposed UDP port 5683 services. This guide covers iptables filtering, libcoap hardening, and Selectel BGP scrubbing to keep your game server protected.

QUIC-based DTLS amplification attacks are an increasingly common threat to self-hosted Assetto Corsa Competizione servers, exploiting UDP port 443 handshakes to flood or overwhelm your uplink. This guide walks through nftables rate limiting, DTLS cookie enforcement, and Imperva BGP scrubbing to keep your lobby alive.

UDP flood attacks can devastate self-hosted Satisfactory servers, but layering tc-tbf traffic shaping, nftables rate limiting, and upstream BGP scrubbing creates a resilient defense. This guide breaks down each layer in plain language so you can protect your game server before the next attack hits.