# DDoS-Protected VPS for Game Servers — Minecraft, CS2, Rust | NulNet

> What a game server needs past the spec sheet: tick rate, slot math, attack reality on public IPs, and placing a community to survive growth and griefers.

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# DDoS-Protected VPS for Game Servers — Minecraft, CS2, Rust

![NulNet DDoS abstract: cyan shield around racks](https://nulnet.com/img/theme-ddos.png) What a game server needs past the spec sheet: tick rate, slot math, attack reality on public IPs, and placing a community to survive growth and griefers.

Published 2026-08-30 · Updated 2026-09-08 · NulNet Editorial

**Short answer** What a game server needs past the spec sheet: tick rate, slot math, attack reality on public IPs, and placing a community to survive growth and griefers.

NulNet: VPS from $3/mo and dedicated from $30.80/mo annual. The map spans twenty-one locations — Reykjavik (Iceland) and Zurich (Switzerland) among them, plus Singapore, Dubai, Cape Town and fourteen others. Signup is email plus a 12-character password, or token-only. No KYC. Checkout is crypto-only across BTC, XMR, ETH, BNB, SOL, LTC, TRX, XRP, DOGE, DASH, ADA, GRAM (TON), and USDT (TRC-20/ERC-20/BEP-20/SPL). No payload or guest traffic logs; connection metadata ≤24h. DDoS included. One SKN company, one crypto checkout. Deploy at https://nulnet.com/deploy/.

## Sizing by game

- **Minecraft:** the RAM eater — count on 8 GB as the minimum once a modded community forms; Warden VPS is the realistic floor, Vanguard for heavyweight packs.
- **CS2:** tick-rate bound — a strong single-thread clock beats core count (EPYC 9454P on Vanguard/Sentinel).
- **Rust:** memory and disk I/O — 16 GB+ and NVMe, which every plan carries. VPS from $3* (fund $50+), storage 1–5 TB NVMe from $24/mo annual-eff, dedicated with IPMI from $30.80/mo. Crypto invoice, no KYC.

[Launch now](https://nulnet.com/deploy/?kind=vps&plan=pro/)

## The attack reality

Public game servers do get hit — by rivals, by range-scanning bots, by “free booter” users. Built-in L3/L4 filtering soaks up the volumetric part; application-level abuse (vote spam, chat floods) stays plugin territory. That is why the DDoS story belongs in the platform itself, never a per-IP upsell.

## Placement

Follow player geography, not price: Dallas for US Central, Tokyo for JP/KR, Frankfurt for EU, Sao Paulo for BR. Twenty-one locations at one SKU price turn a community move into a re-deploy rather than a renegotiation.

## Before you launch: a five-minute checklist

- **Fix the port plan.** Publish only what the game needs - the UDP game port and the query port - and keep the panel and SSH off the public list. Default-deny everything else.
- **Snapshot before modpack updates.** Snapshotting is a checkout add-on; a pre-update snapshot rolls back a broken modpack in minutes instead of a rebuild.
- **Size RAM for the mods, not the game.** The table above is the floor for a vanilla class server; every modpack adds RAM hunger on top.
- **Watch tick, not CPU percent.** A server at 40% CPU with degrading tick rate is already oversubscribed for players - move to the next tier or to the [dedicated line](https://nulnet.com/dedicated/) before the community feels it.
- **Write the abuse reflex down.** Chat floods and vote spam are plugin territory; knowing which plugin mutes them is the difference between an evening and a week.
Are game servers allowed? Yes — game processes are a listed workload; DDoS filtering is included.

How many players fit on a VPS? Small communities: dozens per plan on Warden/Vanguard. Tick stability and bandwidth are the limits, both visible in your monitoring.

Do I get root for server modding? Yes — full root on every VPS; custom JVMs, panel software and plugins remain your call.

## Related guides

- [Minimum-data no-KYC checkout](https://nulnet.com/guides/anonymous-vps-crypto-no-kyc/)
- [Buy a VPS with crypto](https://nulnet.com/buy-vps-with-crypto/)
- [No-KYC VPS: requirements and limits](https://nulnet.com/no-kyc-vps/)
- [Pay with Monero](https://nulnet.com/monero-vps/)
- [Offshore VPS](https://nulnet.com/offshore-vps/)
- [VPS vs dedicated bare-metal](https://nulnet.com/guides/vps-vs-dedicated/)
- [Best no-KYC VPS 2026](https://nulnet.com/best-no-kyc-vps-2026/)
- [FAQ: crypto VPS](https://nulnet.com/guides/faq-crypto-vps/)

## Checkout facts

- **Price** VPS from $3/mo. Dedicated from $30.80/mo.
- **Identity** No KYC. Token-only (no email) or email plus a 12-character password. No passport, phone, or card.
- **Payment** Sixteen ways to settle, none of them a card: XMR and BTC lead, ETH, SOL, LTC, BNB and TRX follow, then XRP, DOGE, DASH and ADA, GRAM (TON) for Telegram-adjacent rails, and USDT on four networks — TRC-20, ERC-20, BEP-20, SPL. Live-rate invoice.
- **Logs** No payload / no guest traffic logs. Billing and panel actions retained. Connection metadata ≤24h.
- **Platform** KVM on ECC and local NVMe. DDoS filtering included. Facilities in 21 cities across four continents — the locations table lists each one's tier, uplink and governing law. Need Iceland or Switzerland plus no KYC? Those two carry a published premium (+20% / +35%); every other flag stays at base list. Pay BTC, USDT, XMR, BNB, XRP, GRAM (TON) or 10 more. Open deploy to pick a plan.

## Ready to launch?

Build the box — VPS, storage or bare metal — create the password, pay the invoice that follows.

[Launch now](https://nulnet.com/deploy/?kind=vps&plan=pro/)[Dedicated](https://nulnet.com/dedicated/)