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Place a protective proxy layer in front of your server to hide your real IP, absorb attacks at the edge and forward only clean, legitimate traffic to your backend.
Proxy Shield protection is a deceptively simple but enormously powerful idea: stop pointing your public DNS at your real server, and instead point it at a hardened proxy that sits in front of it. Visitors hit the proxy, the proxy filters and forwards their legitimate requests to your origin over a private path, and attackers never learn where your real infrastructure actually lives. Server Trafficweb runs Proxy Shield across our offshore edge network so the proxies themselves can absorb large attacks before anything ever reaches your application — your origin stays responsive even when the public DNS address is under siege.
The biggest threat to a busy online service is rarely a clever exploit — it is brute volume. A determined competitor or extortionist can buy hours of DDoS-as-a-service for a few dollars, and a single saturated uplink is enough to take you offline for a customer-killing afternoon. By placing Proxy Shield in front of your origin, you give attackers a much harder target: instead of a single uplink they have to overwhelm a globally distributed proxy edge. The shield distributes load, terminates malicious connections, drops abusive bots and only forwards traffic that looks like real users. Attack volume that would have killed your service becomes a stat in the dashboard.
Proxy Shield is also a powerful privacy multiplier. With your origin IP hidden, an entire class of harassment vectors that target specific IPs becomes useless — port scans, brute force attempts against SSH and RDP, reflection attacks, IP-based blacklisting attempts. You can also change origin hosts without changing your public DNS, geographically blacklist or whitelist visitor regions at the edge, and combine the proxy with a CDN for global edge caching. Real-world use cases include high-value e-commerce sites where downtime directly costs revenue, public APIs protected from credential stuffing and scraping, streaming origins hidden behind the CDN so attackers cannot bypass edge protection to drown the source, and privacy-sensitive services (forums, mail, communities) that need the origin host out of public view.
With Proxy Shield we also provide a complete supporting layer. The shield itself pairs naturally with DDoS Protection Service for enterprise inline filtering, with Firewall and Security for managed firewall rules at the origin, and with Content Delivery Network for global edge caching on top of origin hiding. Pair with Monitoring to watch attack stats and clean-traffic rates in real time. Zero migration friction is the everyday surprise: point your DNS at our edge, choose whether to bring your own SSL certificate or let us issue one, and your application sees the same traffic patterns through standard X-Forwarded-For headers. No code changes, no certificate rebuilds, no operational drama — just an entire class of risk quietly removed.
Key Benefits
Your real server address never appears in DNS or HTTP responses. Attackers cannot target what they cannot see — port scans, brute force probes and IP-based attacks become impossible.
Volumetric DDoS attacks and abusive bots hit the shield, not your origin. Your backend stays responsive even under sustained attack — the shield is built to take the punch.
Smart filtering decides what looks like a real visitor and forwards only legitimate requests to your application. Background noise of constant probing stops appearing in your logs.
Block or allow visitors by country, ASN or IP range to keep abusive regions out and trusted partners in. Rules apply at the edge — abuse never reaches the origin.
Shield a web app, an API, a streaming origin, a mail server or a game server. The proxy is protocol-agnostic and configurable to your specific application needs.
Point your DNS at our edge — no application changes, no certificate rebuilds. The shield slots in front of whatever you run today and starts working immediately.
Update the shield to point at a new origin and your public DNS does not change. Customers never see the migration; rotate origins, switch providers, or move regions transparently.
Combine with DDoS Protection, firewall and CDN for layered defence in depth that genuinely makes intrusions and outages hard.
Built for real workloads
Stores, dashboards and checkout flows where downtime or compromise directly costs revenue and trust. Proxy Shield removes the easiest attack vectors.
Protect rate-sensitive APIs from credential stuffing, scraping, content theft and abusive automation. Rate limits and geo rules apply at the edge.
Hide the origin behind your CDN so attackers cannot bypass edge protection to drown the source server with direct attacks.
Forums, mail platforms or community sites whose operators need to keep the origin host out of public view to prevent doxxing or operator-targeted harassment.
Switch origins, providers or regions invisibly. The public address is the shield; the backend can change underneath without DNS coordination.
Simple. Predictable. Powerful.
Update your A or CNAME record to our proxy edge — usually a five-minute change at your DNS provider. TTL determines how fast the change propagates.
The shield inspects every request, blocks DDoS volume and abusive bots, applies geo and rate-limit rules, and forwards only clean traffic to your origin via a private path.
Your real server IP is never advertised in DNS, HTTP headers or error pages. Attackers see only the shield, with no public path to your backend.
Bring your own certificate or let us issue and renew one automatically. Either way, traffic stays encrypted end to end without certificate-juggling at every origin.
Adjust filtering, geo rules, rate limits and bot-blocking as your traffic patterns evolve. Watch attack and clean-traffic stats in real time via Monitoring.
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