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Vysse
Aspirant
Apr 24, 2020

Questions About XR500 and Home Game Server Hosting

I am thinking about purchasing this router in hopes to help handle some potential DDoS attacks down the road for my home hosted game server. I am wondering if this is a realistic approach and if so w...
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Netduma-Fraser
NetDuma Partner
Apr 25, 2020
Are you expecting there to be attacks? Any VPN would be fine, I would suggest looking into specific gaming VPNs though for speed. I'm not sure about the web server though, in theory it should work.
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Vysse
Aspirant
Apr 25, 2020
Yes I'm expecting there will be attacks. The kind of game server I'm hosting can be competitive and people ddos servers sometimes.
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    Netduma-Fraser
    NetDuma Partner
    Apr 26, 2020
    Just in case then, if the VPN server were to be attacked then you would need to manually change the VPN server to get the connection back up and running. You can enable the option to disable the internet completely when this gets taken down to ensure your IP isn't revealed.