Straight answer
And that's not on you: it's one of the most common confusions in Minecraft hosting. No plugin can stop a DDoS attack. The good news? The real solution is just as easy as installing a plugin, and it's free to start.
Why it doesn't exist
It runs inside your Minecraft server, so it can only act on traffic that has already arrived.
The flood saturates your connection out front. Nothing ever reaches the place where a plugin could act.
A bouncer inside a shop can't stop a crowd from blocking the street outside. A plugin is the bouncer, a DDoS is the crowd.
To be fair
Plugins sold as connection filters are genuinely useful against bot joins: waves of fake players spamming the login screen. That's a real problem, but a much smaller one than a DDoS, and it happens inside traffic that already reached your server. The two protections are complementary: a DDoS filter in front, an anti-bot layer behind. Infinity-Filter actually ships both.
The real fix
Protection has to stand in front of your server, on our network, where floods can be absorbed before they reach you. Setting it up is genuinely simple:
Sign up with your email. No credit card, no trial countdown.
No file to upload, no config to edit on your server. The dashboard shows you the exact value to copy and paste into your domain settings.
Your players connect exactly as before. Attack traffic now hits our filter first and gets absorbed there. Nothing on your server to update, ever.
The Free plan covers servers up to 20 concurrent players, permanently. No credit card, no expiry. If your server grows, paid plans start at €2.99/month.
FAQ
No jargon, promise. Anything else, ask us on Discord.
No. Protection happens on our network, before traffic reaches your server, so there is nothing to upload and nothing to keep updated. If you later want your server to see real player IPs (for bans and logs), there is an optional step for that, and the dashboard walks you through it.
Not noticeably. Traffic passes through a filtering point close to your players, which adds a few milliseconds at most. You pick the region closest to your community (France, Germany, Poland or Canada) when you set up.
Yes. It's a permanent free tier for servers up to 20 concurrent players: no credit card, no time limit, no surprise bill. We offer it because small servers cost us very little to protect, and some of them grow into paying customers later.
Yes, they solve different problems. Your anti-bot plugin handles fake players that reach your login screen. A DDoS filter stops floods that would saturate your connection before any plugin could react. Keep the plugin, add the filter in front.
No plugin, no file upload, no config edits. One DNS change and attacks hit our network instead of your server.
Want the full picture? Read the complete Minecraft server protection guide