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24 alternatives to LECTRON: DDoS Defense for Game Servers

Simplified anycast protection for less than $100 / month

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. LECTRON: DDoS Defense for Game Servers launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Anycast DDoS Protection for the Metaverse and Game Servers

    2021 · ev-lectron.com · its alternatives →

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    Protecting free expression from digital attacks

    2022 · projectshield.withgoogle.com · its alternatives →

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    Ghost▲350

    Open-source, self-hosted game servers

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Scalable open source pub/sub SDK with support for RPC, JWT authentication and Kubernetes — optimized for async/await

    2016 · socketcluster.io · its alternatives →

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    Hey folks — here’s a small experiment I hacked together over the weekend: https://cleoselene.com/ In short, it’s a way to build multiplayer games with no client-side game logic. Everything is rendered on the server, and the game itself is written as simple Lua scripts. I built this to explore a few gamedev ideas I’ve been thinking about while working on Abstra: - Writing multiplayer games as if they were single-player (no client/server complexity) - Streaming game primitives instead of pixels, which should be much lighter - Server-side rendering makes cheating basically…

    Jan 2026 · cleoselene.com · its alternatives →

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    We built any-llm because we needed a lightweight router for LLM providers with minimal overhead. Switching between models is just a string change : update "openai/gpt-4" to "anthropic/claude-3" and you're done. It uses official provider SDKs when available, which helps since providers handle their own compatibility updates. No proxy or gateway service needed either, so getting started is pretty straightforward - just pip install and import. Currently supports 20+ providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, and AWS Bedrock. Would love to hear what you think!

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Cloudron is a complete solution for running apps on your server and keeping them up-to-date and secure.

    2015 · cloudron.io · its alternatives →

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    AxentHost▲115

    Free game server hosting

    2024 · axenthost.com · its alternatives →

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    Secure, forever-free localhost tunnels (ex-Deposure).

    Apr 2026 · agglabs.com · its alternatives →

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    A better way to run a personal server

    2015 · sandstorm.io · its alternatives →

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    SCTP is a low level protocol focused on reliable packet transmission. Unlike hopelessly flinging packets from one device to another, it makes sure that the packets are correct using CRC, removes duplicate packets, and allows for packets to be sent in any order. Going into an established library, I thought that everything was already implemented and that there wasn't anything to do until I went through the existing issues and organized all the tasks and decided on an order. Sean DuBois (https://github.com/Sean-Der), one of the co-creators and current maintainers of Pion, an…

    2025 · pion.ly · its alternatives →

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    An Erlang library for generating adversarial network conditions for QAing distributed applications/systems on a single Linux box. - lostcolony/damocles

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Game servers, powered by technology from space

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    I wanted to play my Steam games but my aging PC couldn’t keep up, so I built Cloudy Pad - a tool to run Steam in the Cloud (GitHub: https://github.com/PierreBeucher/cloudypad) It runs on AWS, Azure, GCP, Scaleway and Paperspace with various cost optimizations and safeties: - Cost alerts - Auto stop inactive instances to avoid unwanted cost - Disk snapshots and data cleanup for cost efficiency - Spot instance support Under the hood: a Linux VM and a container running Sunshine (a streaming server https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine) with Steam. Most…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A utility for arming (creating) many bees (micro EC2 instances) to attack (load test) targets (web applications). - newsapps/beeswithmachineguns

    2012 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN, I'm sharing a little open-source utility I wrote recently. I'm a huge fan of Brendan Gregg's "BPF Performance Tools" book. However, every time I SSH into a fresh server, most of the diagnostic tools aren't installed there and installing them can be really annoying. I decided to use Nix package manager and LLMs to make this process straightforward. My utility first downloads a "toolbox" of Linux utilities (built with Nix), runs Brendan Gregg's famous "60-second Linux analysis" playbook and then summarizes the results with an LLM. So "60-second Linux analysis" now becomes a single…

    Mar 2026 · quesma.com · its alternatives →

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    Mitigating DDOS attacks in seconds

    2019 · ammune.ai · its alternatives →

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    Denial-of-service protection for post-quantum endpoints

    Jul 2026 · secz6.oooooooooo.se · its alternatives →

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    Protection services

    2025 · alos.gg · its alternatives →

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    2017 · deepstreamhub.com · its alternatives →

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    Decentralize, Self-host Cloud Gaming/Application. Contribute to giongto35/cloud-morph development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Next-Gen Gaming Server Hosting Provider. Free 7 days!

    2022 · gamever.io · its alternatives →

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