A bot flood does not have to break in to cost you money
Every fake request still consumes your hosting: CPU, memory, database connections. An attack does not need to succeed to slow your site down for the customers you actually want.
What happens to a request
A flood leaves, aimed at you
It does not need to break in to hurt you. Every fake request still consumes CPU, memory and a database connection, and every one of them makes the site slower for the person you actually want. At volume, an attack that fails still costs you the sale.
It is met at the network
A filtering layer across Cloudflare's global network sits in front of your hosting. The RankShield Network's confirmed-attacker feed is applied there, so a threat recognised anywhere on the network is dropped here, thousands of miles before it reaches you.
Floods absorbed, visitors through
Volumetric traffic is soaked up across the network rather than landing on one server that was never built to take it. Real requests keep moving and arrive clean. Your traffic gets faster precisely because the traffic you did not want never made the trip.
The plugin is still working
Edge protection does not replace what you have. Your plugin keeps scoring and challenging at the origin the entire time: ranking attacks, ad click fraud, spoofed AI agents. Two layers, one network, nothing switched off to get the second one.
The specifics, without the adjectives
- Puts a filtering layer across Cloudflare's global network, in front of your hosting, so traffic is sorted thousands of miles before it reaches your origin.
- Applies the RankShield Network's confirmed-attacker feed at the edge, so a threat recognised anywhere on the network is dropped here too.
- Absorbs volumetric floods across the network instead of landing them on one server that was never built to take them.
- Does not replace your plugin. Origin protection keeps scoring and challenging the whole time: two layers, nothing switched off to get the second one.
- Edge decisions are recorded and checkable like every other RankShield decision, and feed back into the network so every protected site benefits.
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A site already running the plugin that is taking enough automated traffic to feel it. It is $39 a month, cancel anytime, and we set it up for you.
And who it is not for: if your site is not taking enough automated traffic to feel it, the plugin at the origin is already doing the job. We would rather tell you to keep the $39/mo than sell you a layer you do not need.
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Questions before you add a layer
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