How fiveshield Protects Your FiveM Server From DDoS Attacks

The Growing Threat of DDoS Attacks on FiveM

DDoS attacks targeting FiveM servers have become increasingly sophisticated. Attackers use volumetric UDP floods, application-layer exploits, and amplification techniques to overwhelm game servers. A single unprotected server can be knocked offline in seconds.

fiveshield was built from the ground up to solve this problem.

Multi-Layer Defense

Our architecture operates on two distinct layers:

Layer 7 — Application Filtering

All HTTP/HTTPS traffic passes through our CDN layer powered by Cloudflare. This handles:

• Web Application Firewall (WAF) rules
• Bot detection and challenge pages
• Static asset caching (scripts, maps, vehicles) from 330+ global edge locations
• SSL termination and certificate management

Your server's resource downloads are cached globally, reducing bandwidth by up to 98%.

Layer 4 — Distributed UDP Proxy

Game traffic (UDP) flows through our custom proxy infrastructure:

1. Player connects → our API assigns them to an optimal proxy instance
2. XDP filtering → packets are inspected at the network driver level, before the kernel stack
3. Clean forwarding → only legitimate game packets reach your origin server

9+ Global Locations

Our proxy instances are deployed across 4 continents:

• North America: Beauharnois (BHS5)
• Europe: Frankfurt (DE1), Gravelines (GRA11), Roubaix (RBX-A), Strasbourg (SBG5), London (UK1), Warsaw (WAW1)
• Asia-Pacific: Singapore (SGP1)
• Oceania: Sydney (SYD1)

Server owners choose their preferred proxy location from the dashboard — typically the region closest to their player base. Multiple proxy instances per location ensure redundancy — if one instance goes down, traffic shifts to another within the same region.

Multi-Point Redundancy

Each player is assigned to a specific proxy instance, but players from the same server are distributed across multiple instances within your chosen location. This means:

• An attack on one proxy only affects a handful of players
• Your server stays online even during massive volumetric attacks
• Additional instances can be added to your location as demand grows

Getting Started

Protecting your server takes under 5 minutes:

1. Log in with Discord on the dashboard
2. Add your server, choose a proxy location, and fund your $10 CAD balance
3. Download the zip — drop the fiveshield folder (which already contains fiveshield.cfg) into resources/
4. Add exec resources/fiveshield/fiveshield.cfg as the first line of server.cfg, then restart — you're protected

No DNS changes, no Cloudflare setup. See the full install guide for step-by-step screenshots and the optional OVH firewall lockdown.