GigaNodes deploys Cloudflare Magic Transit

GigaNodes integrated Cloudflare Magic Transit on its entire Noida footprint, making it the first Indian hosting firm to offer BGP-level DDoS mitigation at scale [Dev.to]. The deployment required a BGP partnership with Advika Datacenters (AS135682) and a GRE tunnel that routes all inbound traffic through Cloudflare's global backbone before reaching the AMD EPYC 7C13 servers in Yotta DC. The rollout covered every VPS, dedicated server, and game-server instance offered by GigaNodes. Within weeks of activation, a 1.7 Tbps volumetric attack in May 2026 was absorbed by Cloudflare's edge network; GigaNodes' hardware reported zero packet loss and no customer tickets were opened [Dev.to].

GigaNodes' use of Magic Transit provides continuous availability during attacks, unlike traditional Indian hosts that resort to blackholing, which null-routes the victim IP and forces a server reboot [Dev.to]. Additionally, traffic now traverses Cloudflare's backbone first, resulting in measurable latency reductions for Indian users due to direct peering with Jio, Airtel, and BSNL. GigaNodes' public pricing and performance data also expose the opacity of 'DDoS protection included' claims that dominate the Indian hosting sector, potentially forcing competitors to adopt similar BGP-based scrubbing services [Dev.to].