How Indian players reach a protected server
There's no Arvoris PoP inside India — and it doesn't cost your players the latency you'd expect. Cloudflare operates anycast entry points in Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi and Bangalore, so a player on Jio in Pune or Airtel in Hyderabad hands their connection to the edge within their own country. From there the traffic rides Cloudflare's private backbone — not the congested public internet — to the Singapore (SIN) PoP, where Cryo runs hostname-aware Layer-7 filtering before anything touches your backend.
| Nearest PoP | Singapore (SIN) |
| Typical latency | 35–75 ms (Chennai/Mumbai lower, Delhi higher) |
| Entry point | Cloudflare anycast in Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi or Bangalore |
| Plans from | $0 — see pricing |
Why the Indian scene is a booter magnet
Indian Minecraft has exploded: Hindi-language YouTube SMPs routinely pull audiences most Western networks would envy, and every popular series spawns public servers full of viewers. That visibility has a cost. Booters — rentable attack services costing a few dollars — are the default weapon of banned players and rival server owners, and an unprotected `play.yourserver.net` resolving to a bare VPS IP goes down in seconds. What a booter actually is and why they're so cheap is worth understanding before your first incident, not after.
What stands between an attack and your backend
- 500+ Tbps of anycast absorption across 330+ Cloudflare cities soaks volumetric floods at the entry city — a UDP flood from a Delhi botnet dies in Delhi.
- AS216013, Arvoris' own network, applies 600+ Gbps of Layer-7 filtering: Cryo parses the actual Minecraft protocol, so join floods and ping spam are recognized as attacks, not just "lots of traffic".
- **CryoLimbo and antibot verification** send suspicious joiners through a limbo-world gauntlet — captcha first, then behavioral checks — before they ever load a chunk on your server.
- **AntiVPN** classifies VPN, proxy and datacenter IPs in real time, so bot herds hiding behind cheap proxies get flagged, challenged or blocked.
- Real player IPs on every plan — PROXY protocol delivers true client addresses even on the free tier, so your ban lists and plugins keep working.
Getting protected from India in about 5 minutes
Register at beta-panel.arvoris.net, create a network, point it at your server's IP and port, and add one DNS record on your domain. No plugin, no migration, no host change — this works whether your box is in Mumbai, Singapore or Frankfurt. If you're not sure protection is worth paying for yet, the free plan covers up to 15 players with the same pipeline the $40/mo tier uses. Largest attacks mitigated to date: a 7.15 Tbps volumetric flood and a 50-million-connection Layer-7 attack — comfortably beyond anything a booter can rent.
Common questions
Does Arvoris have a server location in India?+
Not a dedicated PoP — the nearest of Arvoris' 7 PoPs is Singapore (SIN). But players never cross the public internet to reach it: they enter Cloudflare's anycast network at a local Indian city (Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi or Bangalore) and the Singapore hop rides Cloudflare's private backbone. In practice that means 35–75 ms round trips, with Chennai and Mumbai at the low end.
What latency should I expect on Jio, Airtel or BSNL?+
Roughly 35–75 ms to the SIN PoP. Chennai and Mumbai connections tend to land near the bottom of that range because they sit close to the subsea routes toward Singapore; Delhi and points north are typically toward the top. All three major ISPs peer with Cloudflare inside India, so the first hop is local either way.
Why do Indian Minecraft servers get attacked so much?+
The Indian scene is one of the fastest-growing in the world — Hindi-language SMPs and YouTube series pull huge audiences — and visibility attracts cheap booter attacks. A few dollars buys enough traffic to knock over an unprotected server, which is why rival servers and banned players reach for booters so casually. Hiding your real IP behind an anycast edge removes the target.
Is there really a free plan, or is it a trial?+
It's a permanent free tier: $0 for up to 15 players and 1 backend, with the full mitigation pipeline, real player IPs via PROXY protocol, 1,000 AntiVPN queries and 24-hour analytics. Paid plans run $10–40/mo as your player count grows.
Will my players need to change anything?+
No. You point your play domain at your Arvoris endpoint with one DNS record (CNAME or SRV) and players keep joining the same address. Setup takes about 5 minutes, needs no plugin, and works with whichever host you already use.
Curious how SIN compares to the other six PoPs? The locations page shows the full map — geo-steering automatically sends each player to whichever PoP is nearest, so a mixed Indian/European playerbase splits cleanly between SIN and FRA.