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Game server hosting—why do providers hate UDP so much?

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#1

Caramba, nossa! I am hosting Minecraft server for my friends on Vultr, everything fine for two weeks, then one day—null-routed! No warning, no nothing, just gone kkkk

I open ticket, they say "UDP amplification attack detected from your IP" but I don't have nothing of amplification, is just Minecraft! My server don't have more than 12 players, caramba!

Then I read they don't hate UDP, they hate not making money with UDP, because DDoS protection is expensive and they don't want to pay for real filtering, so they just null-route anyone who get attacked, nossa! Is not protection, is giving up!

I am not angry, just disappointed and a little bit angry kkkk. My friends think I don't know what I am doing, but I am not doing nothing wrong! Double negation means I am doing right!

Someone know provider who don't null-route Minecraft in first sneeze? I don't want to change again, but I don't want to not have server neither.

#2

Hosting UDP is horrible for the business. The amplification attacks—DNS, NTP, SSDP—the attacker send small packet, server send big packet, your host become weapon. But the providers, they are lazy. They rate-limit everything instead of real filtering. Your Minecraft tick at 2 TPS because they drop legitimate packets. I have seen this at three hosting already. You need provider with genuine scrubbing center, not script kiddie firewall.

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