Hey everyone! I've got a few questions I would like to ask you fellow administrators. I'm about to host 2 seperate rust servers on my dedicated box, though unfortunately the host provider im using does not have a decent DDoS mitigation system. I'm pretty sure that sooner or later my server is going to be a target of DDoS attack from a specific person that does this on servers from a certain region (to keep his population high). Is there a way to protect my server other than hosting on a DDoS protected provider? I heard the terminology "reverse proxy" which pretty much is like setting up a frontend server (say a VPS with good protection ) that forwards traffic to the backend server (the game server itself) so users only have to deal with the frontend server. Has anyone done this? Can you please give me a general direction on what to look for or what my choices are for protection? Thanks in advance!
Possible to get DDoS protection outside of host?
Hi there,
This is possible. What you're looking for though is a tunnel rather than a proxy. More specifically for example a GRE tunnel.
This way the IP address of the player will be preserved. To your "destination gameserver" it'll look as if these players were connecting directly.
Thanks,
Rene
CEO @ Gameserverkings
Edit:
Both in and outbound traffic will flow through this tunnel, so you'll want to make sure it's nearby your destination gameserver in order to keep latencies low.
i can help u with that. i have done it with my server . it blocks the ddos and make ur server secure. as gameserverking. i can help u do the tunnel for ur server.and couple of other tricks.
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