Streaming DDoS Protection — Uninterrupted Media Delivery

Streaming platforms are high-value DDoS targets for several reasons. They consume significant bandwidth, making them expensive to protect with metered mitigation services. They serve audiences in real time, making even brief interruptions immediately noticeable. And they often host content that attracts controversy, competitive sabotage, or extortion attempts.

IPTV services face particular risks, as competitors may launch DDoS attacks to steal subscribers. Live streamers are targeted by disgruntled viewers or rival channels. Media platforms hosting controversial content face politically motivated attacks designed to silence their broadcasts.

The technical characteristics of streaming traffic also create challenges for generic DDoS mitigation. Video streams are high-bandwidth UDP or TCP flows that superficially resemble volumetric attack traffic. Without streaming-aware filtering, mitigation systems may accidentally throttle or block legitimate viewer connections, causing buffering and stream drops for your audience.

Streaming servers typically consume more bandwidth than web servers, making adequate upstream capacity even more critical for DDoS protection. AnubizHost mitigation infrastructure provides multi-terabit scrubbing capacity that handles the combined bandwidth of your stream delivery and incoming attack traffic without congestion.

Our filtering is optimized for streaming protocols including RTMP, HLS, DASH, and raw UDP video transport. The mitigation system recognizes these protocol patterns and applies appropriate filtering rules that protect against attacks while preserving the continuous, high-throughput flows that characterize video delivery.

During an attack, the scrubbing system allocates sufficient clean bandwidth to maintain your stream delivery at full quality. Attack traffic is dropped at the network edge, and the remaining clean bandwidth is reserved for your legitimate viewers. Even during a massive flood, your viewers experience no buffering, no quality degradation, and no interruption.

Live events represent the highest-stakes scenario for streaming DDoS protection. A recorded video can be re-served after an attack ends, but a live broadcast that goes down is simply lost. Viewers tune in for the live experience, and if the stream drops, they leave — often permanently.

AnubizHost streaming protection is designed with live events in mind. Our always-on mitigation means there is no warm-up period when an attack starts. The protection is already active, filtering malicious traffic from the first packet. This eliminates the critical vulnerability window that on-demand mitigation creates.

For high-profile live events where the risk of attack is elevated, our managed protection service can provide additional monitoring and pre-positioned mitigation rules. Our team can be on standby during your broadcast, ready to respond to any attack with customized filtering that has been pre-tuned for your streaming infrastructure.

Choose a server plan with sufficient bandwidth for your streaming needs. Video delivery is bandwidth-intensive, so consider our plans with unmetered bandwidth or high-allocation options. Every plan includes DDoS protection, so your decision is based purely on the resources your streaming platform requires.

Install your streaming server software — whether it is Nginx-RTMP, Owncast, AMS, or a custom solution — and configure it to listen on your server's protected IP address. Our mitigation layer is transparent to your application, so no special configuration is needed on the streaming server side.

For multi-server streaming architectures with origin and edge servers, each server on our network receives independent DDoS protection. You can deploy an origin server for ingest and multiple edge servers for delivery, with all components protected against attacks. This architecture provides both scalability and resilience for growing streaming platforms.