The solution: Create a "Directory Junction" in the LinqPad directory that points at a folder in your project's directory.

Just run the following in a command prompt with elevated privileges.

mklink /J G:\Code\LinqPad\MyProjectName G:\Code\Projects\MyProjectName\LinqPad

This basically makes it so that G:\Code\LinqPad\MyProjectName and G:\Code\Projects\MyProjectName\LinqPad are the same folder. Anything you do to one folder happens to the other folder. Magic.

This configuration protected us in two ways. If a DDoS attack was targeted at one IP address, players connected to that IP (<1% of players) would be booted, and players connected to that proxy server (3-4% of players) would suffer a minute or two of decreased network performance (lag). So, still some disruption was possible, but it was minimized to acceptable levels. Additionally, if a DDoS attack was targeted at a domain name, each attacking client would be assigned a different random IP address, spreading the attack across many servers in several different data centers, nullifying the attack entirely.

Install the Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Razor.RuntimeCompilation NuGet package.

Update the project's Startup.ConfigureServices method to include a call to AddRazorRuntimeCompilation:

services
    .AddControllersWithViews()
    .AddRazorRuntimeCompilation();

• Use Google's DNS
• Automatically sync time
• Install Zip, screen, vnstat, sysstat, s3tools
• Auto-ban IPs if they try to log in too many times

echo "nameserver 8.8.8.8" > /etc/resolv.conf; echo "nameserver 8.8.4.4" >> /etc/resolv.conf; apt-get -y install zip; apt-get -y install screen; apt-get -y install vnstat; apt-get -y install sysstat; wget -O- -q http://s3tools.org/repo/deb-all/stable/s3tools.key | sudo apt-key add - && sudo wget -O/etc/apt/sources.list.d/s3tools.list http://s3tools.org/repo/deb-all/stable/s3tools.list && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install s3cmd; sed -i -e 's@Port 22@Port 46279@' /etc/ssh/sshd_config; sed -i -e 's@Port 1157@Port 46279@' /etc/ssh/sshd_config; service ssh reload; cd; /etc/init.d/dns-clean start; ntpdate ntp.ubuntu.com; apt-get -y install ntp; apt-get -y install fail2ban; reboot now;