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.
Other locations
Create a network and your players near Frankfurt are filtered at FRA from the first connection.