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Using a VPS for ddos protection? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hello guys, so I have been self hosting a bunch of stuff for some years now. But I want to increase the protection of the services I host.

I was thinking of using a VPS just for ddos protecting my services like game servers, web servers, email etc.

Any suggestion on how to set this up well? I was thinking of routing all traffic from the VPS back home with wireguard. My connection is gigabit so I don't think the performance impact will be too big, any suggestion on which proxy, VPS and other things to use?

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[–] deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de 2 points 2 weeks ago

I have a setup similar to this, but not for ddos protection. If I were to get ddossed at a network level, my home connection wouldn't feel much of it, as my VPS quickly gets overloaded. I have been "ddossed" at an application level though, I hate AI web scrapers. Since the entire line from VPS to my home network is 1gbps, that alongside most of my server cpu resources got oversaturated with fake traffic.

(I say ddosed in quotes, because I'm not sure of the intentions of these AI webscrapers. Thousands of requests per second on a server that's usually seeing maybe 5 isn't "normal" traffic either.)