[deanhills]

@tiwil @chanalku91

Please keep in mind that CloudFlare free doesn't provide DDoS protection for game servers and any other custom application or port other than 80/443 for websites only (websockets included of course). The free CloudFlare plan is literally only good as in "good for websites and nothing else". Also with this limitations CloudFlare certainly doesn't even support UDP on free plans because webservers all work over pure TCP.

OP needs something like OVH game protection that is specially meant for UDP DDoS protection for game servers, voice servers and similar. And this is one of the more known, popular and affordable solutions for gamers.

I'm just wondering whether I have it correct.  The actual prevention of DDoS comes from how the server has been set up at the Data Center and the DDoS package deal between the Data Center and the owner of the Server, once one has purchased the use of the server then at the user level one can't add DDoS protection in the same way.  Once one gets a VPS one can try and minimize DDoS, but it's only really the owner and Data Center who can harden the Server for DDoS attacks. At the user level one can try and be safe with available methods, but it's more like having tools to get out of an attack, than actual prevention of the attacks.  If I were into games servers it would probably be better to go to someone who knows games servers inside out and has a good appreciation of DDoS and all of the other challenges that come from a games server environment. Such an owner would probably also only provide games servers that have been kitted out with DDoS protection and be in a better position to assist one if there should be any issues with it.