Powerful Security Features Built for Scale
Comprehensive website protection that covers every attack vector — from sophisticated bots and injection attacks to brute-force floods and content scraping. All managed from a single dashboard.
Bot Protection
ScaleShield uses AI-powered behavioral analysis to distinguish real users from automated threats in real time. Browser fingerprinting, JavaScript challenges, and CAPTCHA fallback work together to form a multi-layered defense. Every request is scored based on dozens of signals before it ever reaches your origin server.
- AI behavioral analysis with per-request risk scoring
- Browser fingerprinting and JavaScript challenge verification
- CAPTCHA fallback for ambiguous traffic
- Stops scrapers, credential stuffers, inventory hoarders, and spam bots
- Transparent to legitimate users — zero friction for real visitors
Web Application Firewall
Full OWASP Top 10 coverage protects your applications from SQL injection, cross-site scripting, remote file inclusion, and more. Managed rulesets are updated continuously by our security team so you stay protected against newly discovered vulnerabilities. Create custom WAF rules and per-domain overrides when you need granular control.
- OWASP Top 10 protection out of the box
- SQLi, XSS, RFI, and command injection blocking
- Custom WAF rules with flexible match conditions
- Per-domain rule overrides for multi-site setups
- Continuously updated managed rulesets
Smart Caching
A multi-tier edge cache serves static assets, images, and full HTML pages from the closest point of presence, reducing origin load by up to 90%. Separate cache zones for HTML, static files, and images each carry their own TTLs, so long-lived assets stay hot while pages refresh on your schedule. Cookie-aware caching ensures logged-in users always see fresh content while anonymous visitors enjoy lightning-fast cached responses. Built-in image optimization via imgproxy shrinks images on the fly — serving AVIF or WebP based on what each browser accepts — without quality loss.
- Three dedicated cache tiers — HTML, static assets, and images — each independently tuned
- Stale-while-revalidate serves instantly and refreshes in the background — zero cold-cache stalls
- Cookie-aware caching for logged-in vs. anonymous users, with a separate always-cached lane for crawlers
- Image optimization via imgproxy — automatic AVIF/WebP negotiation per request
- Reduce origin server load by up to 90% and absorb traffic spikes at the edge
Crawler-Optimized Caching
ScaleShield treats search engine crawlers as first-class traffic with a dedicated cache path engineered specifically for Googlebot, Bingbot, and 20+ other verified crawlers. While logged-in humans receive personalized, cookie-aware responses, crawlers are always served straight from the edge — they never wait on your origin. The payoff is a near-constant, ultra-low TTFB on every crawled URL, even when your origin is slow, saturated, or briefly down. Consistent response times are exactly what Google rewards with a higher, more stable crawl rate.
- Dedicated crawler lane — Googlebot, Bingbot, AppleBot & more served from edge cache regardless of session cookies or dynamic-content bypass rules
- Stale-while-revalidate keeps crawl responses instant while content refreshes in the background — crawlers get speed, you keep freshness
- Origin-failure shielding: crawlers keep receiving fast 200s from cache during origin 5xx errors and timeouts — no "page could not be reached" in Search Console
- Request coalescing collapses crawl bursts into a single origin fetch, eliminating stampedes when Googlebot ramps up
- Rock-steady TTFB stabilizes Google’s crawl rate and compounds into a larger crawl budget over time
Rate Limiting
Configurable per-IP and per-path rate limits let you control exactly how much traffic any single source can send. Graduated responses start with a JavaScript challenge and escalate to a full block, minimizing false positives. Protect login pages from brute-force attacks and API endpoints from abuse without impacting normal users.
- Per-IP and per-path rate limit rules
- Configurable time windows and thresholds
- Graduated responses: challenge then block
- Brute-force login protection
- API abuse prevention with custom limits
Country & ASN Blocking
Block or challenge traffic at the network level based on country, continent, or autonomous system number (ASN). Built-in IP reputation scoring flags suspicious addresses before they even reach your WAF rules. Proxy, VPN, and Tor exit node detection adds another layer of visibility into who is really connecting.
- Block or challenge by country, continent, or ASN
- IP reputation scoring with threat intelligence feeds
- Proxy and VPN detection
- Tor exit node blocking
- Region-level granularity for compliance requirements
Real-Time Analytics
A live traffic dashboard gives you instant visibility into every request hitting your domains. Break threats down by type, country, IP, or time range to understand attack patterns. The activity log lets you drill into individual requests to see exactly what was blocked and why.
- Live traffic dashboard with per-domain metrics
- Threat breakdown by type, country, and IP
- Historical charts with customizable date ranges
- Detailed activity log with full request metadata
- Exportable reports for compliance and auditing
WordPress Hardening
Purpose-built protections for the most popular CMS on the web. ScaleShield locks down wp-login, blocks xmlrpc abuse, hardens admin paths, and prevents comment spam — all without touching a single plugin. Enable WordPress mode and your site is hardened instantly.
- wp-login brute-force protection with challenge gates
- xmlrpc.php blocking to stop amplification attacks
- Admin path hardening and access restrictions
- Comment spam prevention at the edge
Honeypot Traps
Deploy invisible honeypot paths that no legitimate user would ever visit. When a bot or scanner hits one, ScaleShield immediately bans the offending IP. It is a silent, zero-false-positive trap that catches automated scanners the moment they step out of bounds.
- Configurable honeypot URL paths
- Automatic IP ban on trigger
- Invisible to real users — only bots fall in
- Customizable ban duration and response
Built for Googlebot. Engineered for crawl budget.
Google allocates crawl budget based on how fast and how reliably your server responds. ScaleShield gives search engine crawlers their own dedicated, always-cached path — so every bot request is answered from the edge in milliseconds, with rock-steady response times that signal Google to crawl more, more often.
Sub-50ms
Typical cache TTFB
served to crawlers from the edge — no origin round-trip
100%
Crawl-time availability
cache keeps answering even while your origin is down
0
Cold-cache stalls
stale-while-revalidate refreshes silently in the background
Up to 90%
Less origin load
so your server stays fast for the requests that need it
How a crawl request flows
- 1
Crawler detected
Googlebot, Bingbot, AppleBot and 20+ verified crawlers are identified the instant the request arrives.
- 2
Routed to the crawler lane
Cookie and dynamic-content bypass rules are skipped — the crawler is sent straight to the edge cache.
- 3
Served in milliseconds
A hot cached copy is returned immediately, delivering a consistent, ultra-low TTFB on every URL.
- 4
Refreshed in the background
If the copy is aging, ScaleShield revalidates from origin asynchronously — the crawler never waits.
What it means for your rankings
Faster, more reliable crawling turns directly into better search visibility:
- A larger, more stable crawl budget — Google crawls faster when response times stay low and predictable
- Faster discovery and indexing of new and updated pages
- Zero crawl errors during origin downtime, deploys, or traffic spikes
- Consistent Core Web Vitals signals for the rendered, cacheable HTML Googlebot sees
- Your origin shielded from crawl-driven load, keeping real users fast
Even during an outage, crawlers keep receiving fast cached 200 OK responses — so a bad deploy or origin blip never becomes a crawl error in Search Console.
Compare plans
Every plan includes core protection. Upgrade for more rules, longer analytics retention, and advanced features.
| Feature | Free | Starter | ProMost popular | Business |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bot Protection | ||||
| Web Application Firewall | Basic | |||
| Smart Caching | ||||
| Crawler-Optimized Caching | ||||
| Origin-Failure Shielding for Crawlers | — | |||
| Rate Limiting | 1 rule | 5 rules | 25 rules | Unlimited |
| Country & ASN Blocking | — | |||
| Real-Time Analytics | 24h | 7 days | 30 days | 90 days |
| WordPress Hardening | ||||
| Honeypot Traps | — | — | ||
| Custom WAF Rules | — | 3 rules | 20 rules | Unlimited |
| Proxy / VPN Detection | — | — | ||
| Priority Support | — | — |
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