DDos or Dos protection?

[fek[pwr4kj23[kj4kj3]

I have a minecraft server and I constantly have been getting hit by a DDos attack. First was a Dos attack but I didst get the guys ip and ISP wasn't smart enough to help me. Is their anyway to protect me from such attacks? I heard people talk about proxy tunnels but I still don't know what that is. I'm new to this topic and I need a lot of help. I understand what denial of service is and how it works, now the question is how to protect my self without getting expensive services like companies provide because I don't got a lot of money.

[Smaug]

There are several plugins to protect your server from DDoS/DoS attacks although IMO they work poorly. I'd recommend buying a server host that offers DDoS/DoS protection or if you don't know what it is do your research on proxy tunnels.

[Domokun_index]

Are you hosting the server yourself/do you have a host?

[fek[pwr4kj23[kj4kj3]

I'm hosting on my own computer. Also getting ddos protection from a company for a very expensive price is not a option. Also any plugin you know besides nanoguard and front end proxy. Saw those two. And also any other way?

[Smaug]

Also getting ddos protection from a company for a very expensive price is not a option.

If you can't afford to run the server, accept donations other wise your server would be very laggy and if you do get DDoS'ed its not just the server, it's also your computer/internet

[fek[pwr4kj23[kj4kj3]

Well is their anyway to protect against DDos then still? I run a Centos Linux set up that the server is on. I did hear that their is a way to maybe limit the amount of packets but I don't know for sure it will work.