I run a hosting company. I'm also a BCA student. These two things coexist somehow.
GigaNodes started in 2022 as a game server hosting brand — Minecraft, FiveM, ARK, the usual. Over time it grew into a proper VPS and dedicated server operation under GigaNode Technologies Private Limited, with AMD EPYC 7C13 hardware co-located at Yotta DC Noida.
Earlier this year we did something I haven't seen any other Indian hosting provider do: we deployed Cloudflare Magic Transit across our entire network.
What that actually means
Magic Transit is not Cloudflare CDN. It is not a proxy. It is Cloudflare's enterprise network product where your IP prefixes get announced via BGP into Cloudflare's global backbone. All traffic destined for your servers enters Cloudflare's network first, gets scrubbed for attack traffic, and clean packets get forwarded to your data center via GRE tunnel.
To deploy it, your infrastructure partner needs to have BGP-level integration with Cloudflare. Individual companies can't just sign up for it. We made it work through our partnership with Advika Datacenters Private Limited (AS135682) at Yotta DC Noida.
The result: DDoS traffic never reaches our hardware. Our servers don't see the attack at all.
Why no other Indian provider had done this
Most Indian hosting providers use blackholing. When an attack comes in, they null-route your IP. Server goes offline. Attack stops eventually. Server comes back.
That is the standard. That is what "DDoS protection included" usually means in India.
The difference with Magic Transit is that legitimate traffic keeps flowing while attack traffic gets dropped. Your server stays online. Players stay connected. Trades don't get interrupted.
We found out pretty quickly this actually works. We took a 1.7 Tbps attack after deployment. The servers didn't notice.
A 1.7 Tbps volumetric attack hit our network in May 2026. Cloudflare absorbed it at the edge. No downtime. No support tickets from customers. We found out from the Cloudflare dashboard.
The unexpected side effect
Magic Transit also changed our routing for normal traffic. Because everything goes through Cloudflare's backbone first, we now benefit from their direct peering with Jio, Airtel, and BSNL. Indian users hit our servers through fewer hops than before.
We didn't deploy it for the latency improvement. That was a side effect we didn't anticipate.
Why this matters for the Indian hosting market
The Indian hosting market is pretty opaque about what "DDoS protection" actually means. Most of it is blackholing dressed up in marketing language. Providers claim protection but when the attack hits, your IP goes dark and you wait.
Game server owners deal with this constantly. A rival floods your IP with UDP traffic, your provider null-routes it, and your players disconnect mid-raid. Forex traders running MT4 bots have positions open during market hours when an attack hits. The bot can't recover gracefully from a server restart.
Network-layer protection that keeps the server online during an attack is a different product category entirely. We are the first Indian provider to offer it at accessible prices.
What we offer now
- VPS India — AMD EPYC 7C13, Yotta DC Noida, Cloudflare Magic Transit. From ₹400/mo
- Game servers India — Minecraft, FiveM, Rust, ARK. Magic Transit UDP protection. From ₹199/mo
- Dedicated servers India — AMD EPYC 7C13 up to 64 cores. Full bare metal. Magic Transit. From ₹12,999/mo
UPI accepted on all plans. GST invoice included.
If you have questions about the deployment, the BGP setup, or anything about running hosting infrastructure in India, ask in the comments. Happy to get into the details.
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