Fastly vs. BotGuard

The leading edge cloud platform available today empowers developers, fosters customer connections, and facilitates business growth. Our innovative solution is crafted to enhance both your existing technology and your teams' capabilities. By moving data and applications closer to users at the network's edge, our platform significantly boosts the performance of your websites and applications. Fastly's highly customizable CDN enables you to tailor content delivery right where it's needed most. Users will appreciate having immediate access to the information they seek. Our robust Points of Presence (POPs), equipped with solid-state drives (SSDs), are strategically positioned in well-connected areas across the globe. This setup allows for extended caching periods, minimizing the need to retrieve data from the original source. Instant Purge and batch purging through surrogate keys enable rapid caching and invalidation of dynamic content, ensuring that you can always deliver up-to-date news, inventory levels, and weather updates. With such capabilities, your platform is not only efficient but also adaptable to ever-evolving user demands.

We effectively block harmful bot traffic in real-time while ensuring that human users, search engines, and automation tools for affiliates can access your website freely. For optimal protection, you can integrate a web server extension for Apache or NGINX, or utilize a plugin for content management systems like WordPress, or for hosting panels such as cPanel, Plesk, or DirectAdmin. This intuitive security measure provides strong defense against both hackers and bots, lessens server strain, boosts search engine optimization, and delivers accurate web analytics. With bots accounting for over one-third of all online traffic today, it is essential for every website to have reliable protection in place. Our easy-to-use scanner enables you to safely replicate five typical "bad bot" requests to your site, with this rapid test taking less than a minute to finish. BotGuard GateKeeper stands out as the leading protection solution across various cloud platforms like AWS, Digital Ocean, and Vultr, as well as for hosting services and large-scale enterprises. By adopting this system, you not only reinforce your website’s defenses but also obtain crucial insights into your traffic trends and possible vulnerabilities. In doing so, you can proactively address issues before they escalate into significant threats.