Hide IP for game server

[blcknght]

What would be the best way to hide the origin server ip where my game server is hosted.

[Mikensan]

You can rent a virtual machine online and use it as a proxy, but then you're limited by their bandwidth + it'll cost money.

 

You could look to see if cloudflare will work with ports other than 443

 

What problem are you trying to solve?

[Lurick]

Just now, Mikensan said:

You can rent a virtual machine online and use it as a proxy, but then you're limited by their bandwidth + it'll cost money.

 

You could look to see if cloudflare will work with ports other than 443

 

What problem are you trying to solve?

Was just about to post this

 

Cloudflare does work with other ports, if you're an enterprise customer or willing to pay a ton of money per month. Otherwise you're SOL. I asked in an email and they ignored me so I assume unless you're spending big bucks already it's not something they care about giving out to just anyone.

[Windows7ge]

...VPN? I think your only other option is a proxy but that'd take time to figure out and setup. Both would cost money.

[blcknght]

What would you suggest to be the best way to setup a proxy

[Windows7ge]

Just now, blcknght said:

What would you suggest to be the best way to setup a proxy

All I can say to help there is you'd have to find someone willing to host it since it'd take the brunt of any malicious attacks. Like stated above renting a virtual machine would probably be a good choice.

[blcknght]

I have a small not great but good enough vps aswell that I can use to host a proxy, i'm just not sure exactly how to setup a proxy

[jj9987]

Proxy is pretty much the only way, but the latency is gonna suffer. Depending on where the servers are, it could end up being pretty large (e.g. player in the US, proxy in EU, game server in the US).

 

Why not just secure the game server in the first place? You won't be able to avoid DDoS with a proxy.

[blcknght]

so what would you suggest to secure the game server more?

[Mikensan]

23 minutes ago, Lurick said:

Was just about to post this

 

Cloudflare does work with other ports, if you're an enterprise customer or willing to pay a ton of money per month. Otherwise you're SOL. I asked in an email and they ignored me so I assume unless you're spending big bucks already it's not something they care about giving out to just anyone.

I figured as much for cloudflare, was just honestly lazy to dig through their site lol.

 

8 minutes ago, blcknght said:

so what would you suggest to secure the game server more?

 

.. What problem are you trying to solve?

[blcknght]

To stop someone from getting where I live mostly. 

[mtz_federico]

58 minutes ago, blcknght said:

To stop someone from getting where I live mostly. 

You could host the server on a vps 

[blcknght]

But why would I host it on a vps when I have a server at home that is more than capable. I dont want to have to spend more money.

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 hour ago, blcknght said:

But why would I host it on a vps when I have a server at home that is more than capable. I dont want to have to spend more money.

So setup a vpn?

 

But also a vps has a lot of advantages, like if it gets comprimised, your home network is safe.

 

But really, there isn't much you can do with just a IP, I wouldn't worry about it. You can get an exact address normally for a home connection.

[blcknght]

Right, so with my current setup a not great vps that I cant host the game server on. And a good server PC at my home. What are recommended security things I should do?

[Mikensan]

18 hours ago, blcknght said:

To stop someone from getting where I live mostly. 

 

I would create a separate network for your game server so even if it does get comprimised they cannot access your personal data. Ideally you do this with a VLAN and have it behind its own firewall, but you could just as easily get an old router to help segment. If the hardware is powerfull enough I would run a hypervisor so you could at least have a virtual firewall in front of the game server.

 

 

Hard to draw out with words, but since an old router would still be capable of gigabit routing I would have it directly after your modem (disable wifi if it has it) and then using your newer router for all your personal devices. In theory unless you port forward, your new router should not allow any traffic from the old router. However the reverse is true which would allow you to connect to your own game server.

 

ISP > OldRouter (10.0.0.0/24) > NewRouter (192.168.1.0/24)

           >GameServer                      > Personal Devices

 

 

 

 

 

*Edit unless for some reason you are concerned they know what country and possibly state/provenance you live in - but there isn't anything they can do with that knowledge. You could still claim the server is hosted at a friends house or just lie in general.. Either way it doesn't mean much.