Enterprise DDoS Protection
DDoS attacks are a constant threat in the gaming industry, often targeting servers with the goal of causing downtime, lag, or disruption to players. At Dedicated Gaming, we’ve built a protection platform specifically designed to handle real-world attack scenarios, combining global mitigation, on-premise filtering, and real-time control into a single solution. The result is a system that not only blocks attacks effectively, but also maintains low latency and stable performance for your players in both Australia and Singapore.
A Multi-Layer Approach That Actually Works
Unlike most providers that rely on a single layer of protection, our platform uses a multi-layered architecture to stop attacks at every stage. Incoming traffic is first processed through our upstream providers, Global SecureLayer and Gcore, where large-scale volumetric and amplification attacks are absorbed and filtered across global networks. This prevents massive floods from ever reaching our infrastructure and ensures your server’s connectivity remains stable even during high-volume attacks.
Traffic that passes upstream mitigation is then analysed locally using our NeoProtect on-premise filtering systems. This layer allows for deeper inspection of packets, particularly for UDP-heavy game traffic, enabling us to block malformed, spoofed, or abusive packets with far greater precision. By combining upstream filtering with local inspection, we are able to stop both large-scale and highly targeted attacks without negatively impacting legitimate players.
Real-Time Control, Not Just Automatic Protection
One of the key differences with our platform is that protection is not just automatic — it is fully configurable. Through our custom client portal, you have the ability to define how your traffic is handled in real time. This includes creating filtering rules, applying packet-per-second or bandwidth limits, blocking specific traffic patterns, and tuning protection settings for your specific game or application.
This level of control allows you to adapt instantly to new attack patterns or optimise protection based on your player behaviour. Instead of relying on generic, one-size-fits-all filtering, you can fine-tune your protection to match your exact server requirements.
Protection Against Real-World Attack Scenarios
Game servers are frequently targeted using a variety of attack methods, often in combination. One of the most common is the UDP flood, where attackers attempt to overwhelm a server with massive volumes of packets. Without proper mitigation, this can quickly saturate network links and exhaust server resources. Our platform mitigates these attacks by absorbing large packet-per-second floods upstream, while locally applying rate limits and packet validation to ensure only legitimate traffic reaches your server.
Amplification attacks, such as DNS, NTP, or CLDAP reflection, are another common threat. These attacks generate extremely high bandwidth traffic by exploiting third-party services. We mitigate these by blocking spoofed traffic at the network edge and filtering abnormal packet behaviour before it can impact your service, preventing both congestion and downtime.
More advanced attacks target the application layer, attempting to mimic legitimate players through query floods, fake connections, or handshake abuse. These are particularly common in gaming environments and are designed to bypass basic protection systems. Our use of protocol-aware filtering and behavioural analysis allows us to identify and block this type of traffic while ensuring real players can continue to connect without interruption.
In many cases, attackers will combine multiple methods into a single attack, using UDP floods alongside TCP abuse and application-layer attacks. Our multi-layer system is specifically designed to handle these mixed attack scenarios, providing comprehensive protection across all layers simultaneously.
Built Specifically for Game Servers
Our DDoS protection is engineered with game servers in mind, rather than generic web hosting. Each game has its own traffic patterns and attack vectors, and our platform is designed to handle these differences effectively.
For FiveM servers, which are frequently targeted due to their popularity, we provide filtering that focuses on UDP traffic to port 30120, along with protection against fake connection floods and abuse of web ports targeting game services. This ensures stable performance even during sustained attacks
Minecraft servers often experience bot join floods and query spam designed to exhaust server resources. Our system mitigates this through connection rate limiting, layer 7 filtering, and behavioural analysis to distinguish between legitimate players and automated traffic.
Rust servers require consistent performance due to their real-time nature and high entity counts. We handle common attack patterns such as high packet-per-second UDP floods and lag-inducing traffic by applying upstream mitigation combined with fine-tuned local filtering, maintaining gameplay stability even under attack.
DayZ servers are particularly sensitive to malformed packets and protocol abuse, which can lead to crashes or desynchronisation. Our filtering includes packet inspection and signature-based rules tailored to DayZ traffic, reducing the impact of these types of attacks and improving overall server stability.
Why Our Protection Is Different
Many hosting providers rely solely on upstream DDoS protection or apply generic filtering that is not optimised for gaming traffic. In contrast, our approach combines global mitigation, local filtering, and customer-controlled rules into a single platform. This allows us to provide more accurate filtering, lower latency, and greater flexibility than traditional solutions.
The result is a protection system that not only blocks attacks effectively, but also gives you the tools to control and optimise how your traffic is handled. For game server operators, this means better uptime, improved performance, and the ability to respond quickly to changing conditions.
Real Protection for Real Attacks
DDoS attacks are constantly evolving, and effective protection requires more than just basic filtering. By combining upstream providers, on-premise systems, and real-time control, we deliver a solution that is designed to handle the types of attacks that game servers face every day.
With Dedicated Gaming, your infrastructure is protected by a system built not just to absorb attacks, but to intelligently filter and control them ensuring your players stay connected, no matter what.
Always On DDoS Protection
Dedicated Gaming has implemented the best anti-DDoS technology powered by NeoProtect and NSFocus to combat these attacks. Every transit or peering port we have coming into our edge is first passed through a protection Appliances, capable of filtering well past a 100gbps line rate attack. This ensures ddos traffic is scrubbed before it hits your server!.
Instant DDoS Mitigation
Because our solution is in-line, we are able to provide realtime protection for any application, and literally instant mitigation.
Reliable Protection
By utilizing the best technology in DDoS, our protection is second to none. We offer true, in-line DDoS mitigation powered by dedicated NeoProtect and NSFocus Appliances.
No Downtime, Ever
Having an on-premise mitigation solution means our protection is always turned on, and always filtering 24/7/365 with no manual intervention needed!
