Firewall and VPN
Firewall
A firewall is a critical part of hosting your game. By choosing a firewall that fits your design you can: |
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Game-Hosting offers two firewall solutions that are supported in our managed hosting.
Filter based firewalls only allow certain ports, protocols or IP ranges. A stateful firewall keeps track of the state of the network connections. Optionally also deep packet inspection (DPI) can be added, this means that the contents of the packets are checked, and not only the header information.
With games it's extra imporant to consider the performance of the firewall so that the gaming experience remain uneffected for the end users. With many years experience, Game-Hosting carefully balances cost and performance in firewalls to offer the best possible solution.
VPN
To be able to administrate backend services behind your firewall, a Virtual Private Network (VPN) is often the best solution and goes hand-in-hand with firewalls.
Game-Hosting offers two types of of VPN
IPSec VPN requires a client, or a preconfigured site-to-site VPN with another firewall placed at the office, this is a good solution for keeping an open administration channel from your office to our datacenter.
SSL VPN does not require a client and works on all platforms through the use of a webbrowser. This is perfect for administrators working from their laptops. It also reduces work for other administrators since it does not require a client to be preinstalled.
