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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/pdxmichael on 2025-02-18 08:29:32+00:00.
A few months ago I started a game server, it was initially supposed to be a group of friends but we made it public and got popular. Popular enough that we made it to #12 overall.
That's when I started having Internet issues...every hour almost on the hour my Xfinity Internet would go out... And come right back. No outage emails or texts, called they said everything should be fine. This went on for a week until I made the connection in my head. The internet would go out consistently for 3-5 minutes regularly.. has to be a DDoS!
So I bought a dedicated server with DDoS protection and sure enough in the first 12 hours after bringing the game server online and the IP going public it was attacked 20 times. They sent me a report the next day. I ended up picking up a replacement modem from Xfinity so I could obtain a new IP and what do ya know, zero issues since.
I'm wondering if there is any solution for me as Xfinity does not provide DDoS protection. I could put my cable modem in bridge mode or so I've been told but a large DDoS attacks could still take it down no? I've been trying to find a solution so I can self host again as it's expensive for the dedicated and I built a beefy machine (13900ks) to host this.
In short:
Have xfinity, was getting DDoS'd Changed IP and wondering if 3rd party cable modem or alike that has DDoS protection is available
Any of you run into something like this? Thanks for reading