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We are working on adding a whole new set of Minecraft modpacks to our systems. These modpacks are already available for pre-order and will be set up automatically once they are added to our systems. The following modpacks are now available for pre-order now:

FTB Direwolf 20 1.16FTB Unstable 1.16Minecraft PurpurMC UltimatoThe Final Frontier 2Fabric - Adventure PackYour ZAP team!

Major outage 17.01.2021 Main location "Frankfurt -> Eygelshoven" several hours down In the 10.5 year history of ZAP-Hosting, the largest network outage of the main location "Frankfurt am Main -> Eygelshoven" occurred on Sunday, 17.01.2021. We will inform you about the background and causes in the following. At the end of the blog entry you will find a 10 € ZAP credit compensation voucher.   British Telecom down between Eygelshoven and Frankfurt, redundancy via Amsterdasm failed Currently, all German ZAP hosting networks are announced and routed in the Interxion data center in Frankfurt am Main via Combahton. This is also where the extremely powerful DDoS filtering, optimized for game servers, takes place. Combahton then pushes the "clean traffic" over a British Telecom line to Eygelshoven, NL, where most of our servers (incl. website etc.) are located.
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DDoS Protection EnhancementsEven more protection for TeamSpeak serversWe have fully activated the DDoS protection for all Teamspeak servers this week. Previously, all servers were in sensor mode, which meant that the protection was fully activated when an attack was registered. During this activation, lag or disconnects may occur.

We have now fully activated the protection for all TS servers, because we managed to eliminate the disadvantages of a fully activated protection with the help of Combahton. From now on you can enjoy the full DDoS protection on all TS servers at our locations in Germany, Dallas and Finland without any disadvantages!

You need a TS server? Here you can find our TS servers:Teamspeak server hosting
Combahton DDoS-Protection in Germany, Finland and Dallas/USAWe have worked closely with our DDoS protection provider Combahton to constantly improve ...

Finally! The best DDoS Protection for Game- and TS3 Servers now available in Dallas - many new Minecraft Modpacks at ZAPZAP Hosting introduces the best DDoS protection in Dallas
It was a long way there. But we are confident to say now: ZAP-Hosting has the best DDoS protection for Game- and Teamspeak 3 servers. In cooperation with the smart guys from Combahton we have developed and optimized a product that can withstand almost any attack method without any problems. It became clear again and again that attacks with large bandwidths are less of a problem than sophisticated attacks with several million p/ps directly on the respective game server or on the associated query port. We have implemented hundreds of filters and optimizations for the 30 most popular games at ZAP Hosting. We regularly test attacks on our own infrastructure to further optimize protection. Soon there will be a "Le...

Huge stress test next week! Save up to 99%!Only for a very short time!Shortly before Christmas we want make sure our server can handle a large load and are going to do a stress test: On Tuesday, we will activate a voucher code for only 1.5 hours, which will save you 99% on the 1st payment for a new server! We will share more information in a timely manner via our social media channels. So follow us on Facebook, Twitter or Youtube:
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ZAP on Youtube Impostor servers for Among Us are available nowWe have also added Impostor servers to our game server cloud. Impostor is a server mod for Among Us that lets you set up your own servers. Our Impostor servers are fully set up so you can ge...