Frankfurt is home to DE-CIX, the highest-traffic internet exchange in the world, and to a huge share of Europe's Minecraft hosting. The FRA PoP peers directly into that fabric: German, Dutch, French and UK players usually see 5–25 ms to the edge, and the filtered hop onward to a European host adds almost nothing.
The German-speaking Minecraft scene alone is one of the largest in Europe, and European servers face constant Layer-7 pressure from rented botnets. FRA is our workhorse European PoP: protocol-aware filtering, MOTD caching close to the players who ping most, and CryoLimbo verification for anything suspicious — all before a packet crosses to your backend.
Who connects through FRA
- Germany, Austria, Switzerland
- France & Benelux
- UK & Ireland
- Nordics
Routing is automatic: anycast delivers each player to their nearest entry city, and geo-steering picks the best Cryo PoP from there. If Frankfurt is ever unavailable, traffic shifts to Warsaw (WAW) without a config change.
Same pipeline as every PoP
FRA runs the complete Arvoris stack — nothing regional about the protection: L4/L7 DDoS mitigation, the antibot pipeline with CryoLimbo verification, AntiVPN, MOTD edge caching and real client IPs via PROXY protocol. Plans start free for up to 15 players.
Latency history from FRA
Round-trip times over the last 6 hours, sampled continuously — not estimated.
Other locations
Create a network and your players near Frankfurt are filtered at FRA from the first connection.