ScaleShield
Enterprise-grade bot defense, WAF, DDoS mitigation, and smart caching in one platform. ScaleShield sits in front of your WordPress site—filtering threats, optimising performance, and keeping your business online. Always on. Fully managed.
What Is ScaleShield?
ScaleShield is the protection and performance layer that sits between the internet and your WordPress site. Every request passes through ScaleShield before reaching your server—bad traffic is blocked, good traffic is accelerated.
Unlike traditional security plugins that run inside WordPress, ScaleShield operates at the network edge. This means threats are stopped before they consume server resources, and your site stays fast even under attack.
- 1Request hits ScaleShield's nearest edge node
- 2Bot detection and rate limiting applied instantly
- 3WAF rules filter malicious payloads
- 4Clean traffic is cached and served at the edge
- 5Dynamic requests are optimised and forwarded to origin
Core Capabilities
Bot defense, WAF, DDoS mitigation, and smart caching—all working together to protect and accelerate your site.
Bot Defense
Intelligent bot detection blocks malicious automated traffic—scrapers, credential stuffers, and spam bots—while allowing legitimate crawlers through.
Web Application Firewall
Custom WAF rules tuned specifically for WordPress block SQL injection, XSS, CSRF, and other OWASP Top 10 attacks before they reach PHP.
Rate Limiting
Protect login pages, APIs, and forms from abuse with intelligent rate limiting that adapts to traffic patterns automatically.
DDoS Mitigation
Volumetric and application-layer DDoS attacks are absorbed at the network edge. Your origin server never sees attack traffic.
Smart Caching
Full page caching at the edge delivers content in milliseconds. Dynamic content is intelligently cached with automatic purging on updates.
Image Optimisation
Every image is automatically converted to WebP/AVIF, compressed, and served at the optimal size for each device—no plugins needed.
What Happens in Milliseconds
Every request to your site passes through ScaleShield's protection pipeline. Here's what happens before a single byte reaches your server.
Edge Routing
Request hits the nearest ScaleShield edge node. IP reputation and geo-filtering applied instantly.
Bot & Rate Check
Machine learning identifies bot signatures. Rate limits enforced. Malicious requests dropped.
WAF Inspection
Request payload inspected against WordPress-specific WAF rules. SQLi, XSS, and exploits blocked.
Cache & Deliver
Clean request served from edge cache or forwarded to origin. Response optimised and delivered.
Always On. Zero Configuration.
ScaleShield activates the moment your site goes live on G7Cloud. There's nothing to install, nothing to configure, and nothing to maintain. Protection and performance are automatic.
No plugins to install
ScaleShield operates outside WordPress at the network level.
No configuration needed
Optimised defaults tuned for WordPress. Works out of the box.
No maintenance required
Rules and signatures updated automatically by our security team.
No performance overhead
Protection happens at the edge, not inside your WordPress installation.
ScaleShield Performance Impact
The World's Fastest OpenResty Caching Engine
ScaleShield isn't a generic, one-size-fits-all CDN. It's a bespoke caching layer built on OpenResty—the world's fastest reverse proxy—and tuned specifically for your application by our infrastructure engineers.
By serving full pages directly from memory at the network edge, we consistently deliver Time to First Byte (TTFB) under 40 milliseconds. Your server never has to process the same request twice.
Intelligent Bot Delivery
ScaleShield identifies good bots (like Googlebot and Bingbot) and ensures they are always served cached pages. Bots never wait for dynamic PHP generation, dramatically improving your crawl budget and SEO outcomes.
Standard Crawl Efficiency
Bots trigger expensive PHP processes. Server slows down under heavy crawling. Google reduces crawl rate to protect your server.
ScaleShield Crawl Efficiency
Bots served instantly from edge memory. Zero server load. Google indexes your content faster and ranks you higher.
Cache Customised for Your Architecture
Every client gets a bespoke OpenResty caching configuration. Our engineers analyse your site's URL structure, dynamic content patterns, and user flows to build rules that maximise cache hit rates without breaking functionality.
Smart Exclusions
Cart pages, checkouts, and logged-in users are automatically bypassed to ensure dynamic content works flawlessly.
Granular TTLs
Different Time-To-Live rules for homepages, product pages, and API endpoints based on how often they change.
Instant Invalidation
WordPress hooks automatically trigger cache purges the millisecond you publish a post or update a product.
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