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Address the technical challenges that are holding your game back
CLOUDFLARE FOR GAMING

Address the technical challenges that are holding your game back

The challenge Cloudflare solution The benefits
Attackers target games with credential stuffing , content scraping , and ‘ gold farming ’ attacks .
Players expect fast gameplay experiences , but network congestion can slow down traffic .
DDoS protection for custom TCP / UDP gaming applications requires more resources .
A DDoS attack can knock your game offline , resulting in upset players and lost revenue .
Bot Management
Argo Smart Routing
Spectrum
Magic Transit
Cloudflare Bot Management uses data from approximately 25 million Internet properties to identify and mitigate bad bots . Plus , customers use Bot Analytics to understand trends and improve security over time .
Argo Smart Routing directs web traffic on the least-congested network paths , improving game performance and reducing latency . On average , Argo helps web assets perform 30 % faster .
Extend Cloudflare ’ s DDoS protection , traffic acceleration , load balancing , and other capabilities to custom TCP / UDP gaming applications .
Defend your network infrastructure against DDoS attacks while improving performance . DDoS mitigation runs on every server in the Cloudflare network , which operates within 100 milliseconds of 95 % of the Internet-connected population globally . That means attack mitigation happens quickly because it takes place close to the source .
“ Cloudflare Spectrum helped us really boost the performance and resiliency of our custom TCP protocols . With other providers , it takes more than 30 seconds to a minute before scrubbing or mitigation takes place . Using Spectrum , it ’ s much faster .”
Ben Burns Chief Information Officer , Turtle Entertainment Online , Inc .
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