Anti-DDoS Dedicated Hosting: Built-in Protection From $99/mo, 24/7 Always-On Filtering

If you've ever watched your server get washed off the internet by a DDoS attack you didn't see coming, you already know why you're here. One minute your game server is packed, your store is taking orders, your app is humming along — and the next minute everything times out, your monitoring goes red, and your phone starts blowing up. That's the moment most people start Googling "anti ddos dedicated hosting" with a little more urgency than they had yesterday.

The thing about DDoS is that it's not even a sophisticated attack most of the time. It's just volume. Somebody points a firehose at your IP and waits for you to drown. And the painful part isn't the attack itself — it's how unprepared most hosts are to do anything about it. You open a ticket, they null-route your IP, and now you're offline and paying for the privilege. Good times.

So let's talk about what actually works, what to look for, and where you can get it without re-mortgaging your business.

Why "anti-DDoS" isn't a nice-to-have anymore

Here's the uncomfortable truth: DDoS attacks have gotten cheaper to launch and more expensive to absorb. A kid with twenty bucks of booter service can send tens of gigabits at your box. A serious attacker can push hundreds. And if you're sitting on a regular dedicated host with no protection layer in front of it, your uplink saturates, your provider panic-null-routes you, and you're done for the night.

That's the core problem people are really solving when they search for anti-DDoS dedicated hosting. They don't want a "DDoS-protected" marketing sticker. They want a host where the protection is actually plumbed into the network, runs all the time, and doesn't require them to phone somebody at 3 a.m. begging for help.

The features worth demanding are pretty simple when you strip away the marketing fluff:

• Always-on network-level filtering — not "call us when you're under attack." The traffic should be scrubbed before it ever reaches your port.

• Coverage of the common attack types — UDP floods, SYN floods, HTTP floods, DNS and NTP amplification, SSDP reflection, Memcached reflection, ICMP floods, Slowloris, ACK floods, and the rest of the usual suspects. A provider that only handles volumetric UDP is going to leave you exposed to application-layer stuff.

• Real mitigation capacity — measured in tens or hundreds of gigabits, not "we'll do our best."

• No migration tax — you shouldn't have to move your whole deployment to a new IP range just to get protected.

• Dedicated hardware you actually control — because the whole point of going dedicated is getting off the shared sandbox.

Where Sharktech fits into this conversation

Sharktech has been doing DDoS-protected hosting since 2003, which is longer than most of the companies currently ranking for this keyword have existed. They run their own network — they're an actual ISP, peering at major IXPs — which matters here because it means the DDoS filtering isn't bolted on as a third-party add-on. It's their own proprietary mitigation system sitting on their own gear.

Every Sharktech hosted service ships with DDoS protection included. Not as a paid upgrade, not as a "contact sales" line item — included. The protection runs 24/7, monitors the network continuously, and automatically routes attack traffic to their firewalls for scrubbing while letting clean traffic through untouched. They advertise upgradeable mitigation capacity up to 100Gbps, and their backbone is natively built on 40G/100G technology across five points of presence: Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Denver, Chicago, and Amsterdam.

The attack types their system is documented to defend against cover the full menu — UDP flood, HTTP flood, TCP SYN flood, ICMP flood, Slowloris, NTP amplification, DNS amplification, ACK flood, HTTP POST flood, SSDP reflection, UDP reflection, SYN-ACK-ACK, Memcached reflection, SNMP reflection, Chargen reflection, NXDomain, Ping of Death, Smurf, reflected ICMP & UDP, and combined ICMP+UDP floods. That's not a cherry-picked list of the easy stuff — that's the whole playbook.

There's also a Remote Network DDoS Protection option for people who can't or don't want to migrate their existing deployment — the traffic gets scrubbed at Sharktech's edge before it ever touches your network, no migration required.

If you want to look at the actual protection page and the dedicated server lineup yourself, here's the door:

👉 Explore Sharktech's anti-DDoS dedicated hosting

What "dedicated" actually gets you here

This is worth being clear about, because the term gets abused. A Sharktech dedicated server is a bare-metal box — you get the whole physical machine, no hypervisor sharing, no noisy neighbors, and direct hardware-level access through their server management panel. You can install your own OS, run your own virtualization, and configure the box however you want. That's the difference between "dedicated" and "dedicated bare-metal," and Sharktech sells the latter.

Every dedicated plan includes:

• DDoS protection (always on, included)

• Free setup

• 99.99% uptime guarantee

• Server hardware management panel

• 24/7 technical support

• /29 IPv4 (5 usable IPs) and free IPv6 allocation

• Network uplinks from 1Gbps up to 10Gbps unmetered depending on plan

• Hardware that's customizable at order time or any time after — CPU, RAM, GPU, and disk can all be upgraded

The dedicated server lineup, plan by plan

Sharktech lists their bare-metal inventory by data center, and pricing varies a bit by location for identical hardware. Here's what's currently on the menu, organized from the entry-level box up to the heavy iron. All prices are monthly unless noted, all include free setup, and all include the DDoS protection layer.

The $99/mo entry point — Xeon E3-1270v5

This is the cheapest dedicated box on the list and it's a legitimate dedicated server, not a dressed-up VPS.

• CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1270v5, 4 cores / 8 threads at 3.5GHz

• RAM: 16GB

• Storage: 500GB SSD, with one M.2 bay available for an NVMe upgrade

• Network: 1Gbps unmetered

• DDoS protection: Included, always-on

• Best for: Small game servers, single-app deployments, DNS servers, people who've outgrown VPS but don't need a beast

• Available in: Los Angeles, Chicago, Amsterdam

This is the plan most people should probably start at if they're not sure what they need. It's real hardware, real unmetered gigabit, and the same DDoS stack the big boxes get.

👉 Get the $99/mo DDoS-protected dedicated server

The mid-range workhorse — Dual Xeon E5-2678v3, $149–$189/mo

This is where you start getting serious multicore for not much more money.

• CPU: Dual Intel Xeon E5-2678v3, 24 cores / 48 threads at 2.5GHz

• RAM: 128GB

• Storage: 500GB SSD or 1TB M.2 NVMe depending on configuration

• Network: 1Gbps unmetered

• DDoS protection: Included

• Best for: Game server networks (Minecraft in particular eats cores), medium-traffic web apps, virtualization hosts, anything that wants lots of threads

• Price varies by data center: $149/mo in Los Angeles and Denver with the 1TB NVMe config, $169/mo in Amsterdam, $189/mo for the 12-bay storage variant

128GB of RAM at this price point is the headline. If you're running a fleet of VMs or a game network that likes to spread load across cores, this is the sweet spot.

👉 Check the Dual Xeon E5-2678v3 dedicated plans

The modern single-socket powerhouse — Dual Xeon Gold 6148, $229–$249/mo

For people who want newer silicon and faster single-thread performance.

• CPU: Dual Intel Xeon Gold 6148, 40 cores / 80 threads at 2.40GHz

• RAM: 128GB

• Storage: 2TB M.2 NVMe standard

• Network: 1Gbps unmetered

• DDoS protection: Included

• Best for: Database servers, API backends, high-concurrency workloads, anything that wants fast NVMe and a lot of cores

• Price: $229/mo in most locations, $249/mo in Los Angeles and Denver

The 2TB NVMe out of the box is a real upgrade over the SATA SSD configs above, and the Gold 6148 is a noticeably more modern part than the E5 v3 generation.

👉 See the Xeon Gold 6148 dedicated configurations

The 10Gbps unmetered tier — from $349/mo

This is where you stop worrying about bandwidth entirely.

• CPU options: Dual Xeon E5-2695v4 (72 threads @ 2.10GHz) or Dual Xeon Gold 6148 (80 threads)

• RAM: 256GB

• Storage: 2TB M.2 NVMe

• Network: 10Gbps unmetered

• DDoS protection: Included

• Best for: Streaming platforms, large game networks, media-heavy deployments, anyone whose previous host billed them for egress

• Entry price: $349/mo for the E5-2695v4 in Chicago, scaling up to $599/mo for top configs

If your last hosting bill had a "bandwidth overage" line item that made you wince, this is the tier that makes that line item go away permanently.

👉 Browse the 10Gbps unmetered dedicated servers

The flagship — AMD EPYC 7702P, $599/mo

The top of the current lineup, for when you genuinely need 128 cores.

• CPU: AMD EPYC 7702P, 64 cores / 128 threads at 2.0GHz

• RAM: 256GB

• Storage: 2TB M.2 NVMe, 14 U.2 bays

• Network: 10Gbps unmetered

• DDoS protection: Included

• Best for: Heavy virtualization, dense container hosts, large database clusters, anything that measures its workload in hundreds of concurrent threads

The GPU option — Dual Xeon E5-2695v4 + RTX A4000

For people who need compute on the box itself.

• CPU: Dual Xeon E5-2695v4, 36 cores / 72 threads

• RAM: 256GB

• Storage: 2TB M.2 NVMe

• GPU: NVIDIA RTX A4000

• Network: 10Gbps unmetered

• DDoS protection: Included

• Price: From $1,557/quarter (Las Vegas)

• Best for: AI inference, rendering, video transcoding, ML workloads that want a GPU bolted onto a dedicated host

Current promo codes worth knowing about

Sharktech runs periodic promo codes that stack on top of the list prices above. A few that have appeared on their promotional pricing page — verify at checkout, since promos rotate:

• v5LACHI — drops the E3-1270v5 (16GB RAM, 2TB HDD or 120GB SSD, 30TB bandwidth) to $99/mo in Chicago or Los Angeles, normally $159/mo

• New2637v2 — Dual Xeon E5-2637v2 with 32GB RAM for $183.20/mo in Chicago, Denver, or Los Angeles, marketed as ideal for Minecraft servers

• E51G / E51Gchi / E51Gden / E51Gams — Dual Xeon E5-2670 (32 threads, 32GB RAM, 1Gbps unmetered) for $159–$189/mo depending on location, with the gigabit unmetered uplink included

• 10GbpsCHI — 40% off recurring on the Chicago 10Gbps unmetered E3-1270v2 plan

• 10GbpsLA — 20% off recurring on the Los Angeles 10Gbps unmetered equivalent

There's also a recurring discount code, Y5YET1Z9EK, that third-party coupon aggregators report works for 10% off dedicated servers regardless of billing cycle. I'd test it in the cart before counting on it — promo code reliability varies — but it's worth a try given that it stacks conceptually with the annual prepay discounts Sharktech advertises.

👉 Apply promo codes and configure your server

What real users actually say

The marketing copy is one thing; the track record is another. A couple of data points worth noting:

A game network operator named in Sharktech's own customer wall reports their game servers get hit with DDoS attacks in the 3–8Gbit range regularly, and their servers "never skip a beat." That's not a lab test — that's someone whose business depends on staying online saying the filtering works under real attacks.

A longer-form review on LowEndTalk from a user who ran a Sharktech DDoS-protected dedicated server (dual core, 4GB, 1.5TB HDD, 100Mbps uplink) for a year reported that Sharktech successfully stopped the attacks they were getting hit with, called the experience "quite fast," and explicitly recommended Sharktech for anyone who specifically needs DDoS protection.

The common thread in user feedback is the same: the protection works, the network is genuinely fast because they peer directly rather than through intermediaries, and the pricing is competitive for what you get. The complaints, where they exist, tend to be about delivery times on custom bare-metal configs during hardware shortages — which is an industry-wide problem, not a Sharktech-specific one.

Bare-metal vs. cloud — which one are you actually buying?

This comes up constantly in the anti-DDoS hosting search, so it's worth addressing directly.

A dedicated bare-metal server gives you exclusive access to the physical hardware. You're not paying for a slice of a hypervisor — you're paying for the whole machine. That means predictable performance (no noisy neighbors stealing your disk IO at 2 a.m.), direct hardware-level management through the panel, the ability to run your own virtualization layer if you want, and full control over the OS and kernel. The trade-off is that scaling up means ordering another box rather than clicking a slider.

Cloud hosting gives you the slider. You can spin up and tear down compute on demand, billed hourly or monthly, with the host handling redundancy. The trade-off is that you're on shared infrastructure, you don't get hardware-level access, and performance can be variable.

For anti-DDoS purposes, both routes work at Sharktech — the protection is included either way. The question is whether your workload wants a dedicated box or an elastic cloud. If you've got a steady-state workload that just needs to stay online under attack, bare-metal is the more cost-effective answer. If your traffic spikes unpredictably and you want to pay for what you use, look at their cloud tier instead.

How the DDoS protection actually works in practice

The mechanism is worth understanding because it explains why "always-on" matters more than "we have DDoS protection."

When attack traffic heads toward your server, it doesn't hit your box directly. It hits Sharktech's edge first. Their detection systems identify the attack pattern, and the malicious traffic gets routed to their firewall infrastructure for filtering. Clean traffic passes through to your server untouched. You don't have to enable anything, you don't have to call anyone, and there's no software or hardware for you to install or maintain on your side.

This is the difference between "DDoS protection" as a marketing claim and DDoS protection as an actual network architecture. A lot of hosts will tell you they're DDoS-protected because they'll null-route your IP if you get attacked. That's not protection — that's just turning you off. Sharktech's setup actually scrubs the traffic and keeps you online.

The remote protection variant works the same way but for infrastructure that lives somewhere else. If you're committed to your current provider for whatever reason but you keep getting attacked, you can point your traffic at Sharktech's edge, let them clean it, and forward the good stuff to your real backend. No migration, no IP changes on your existing deployment.

Who this is really for

After running through all of the above, the honest answer is that Sharktech's anti-DDoS dedicated hosting fits a pretty specific profile of buyer:

• Game server operators who get attacked because they're game server operators. The Minecraft-optimized configs and the 10Gbps unmetered tier exist specifically for this crowd.

• Small-to-mid businesses that have been knocked offline by an attack and had their previous host respond by null-routing them. The $99 entry point exists so you don't have to be a big operation to get real protection.

• Anyone whose business depends on a single IP staying reachable — DNS providers, API backends, payment-facing services, anything where downtime equals direct revenue loss.

• People who got tired of bandwidth overage bills. The unmetered tiers are aggressive for the price.

• China-adjacent operations. Sharktech peers with China Telecom and China Mobile, which is unusual for a US-based host and matters a lot if your user base is in or transiting through mainland China.

It's not the right fit if you want a fully managed server where somebody else patches your OS for you — Sharktech gives you the box and the network, and the box is yours to run. And it's not the right fit if you need a host with a data center in Asia or South America; their footprint is US plus Amsterdam.

The bottom line

The reason "anti ddos dedicated hosting" gets searched as much as it does is that most of the market fails at one half or the other. You can find dedicated hosts that don't really protect you, and you can find DDoS-protected hosts that aren't really dedicated. Finding both in the same product, at a price that doesn't require an enterprise contract, is the actual job.

Sharktech's been doing exactly that one thing for over twenty years, the protection is built in rather than bolted on, the dedicated hardware is genuinely bare-metal, and the entry price is $99/mo with the same DDoS stack the big boxes get. If you've been getting knocked offline and you're tired of it, that's a reasonable place to start looking.

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