We’re excited to announce the launch of UK Servers Shield, a powerful new anycast proxy service built to protect your web hosting infrastructure from the ground up, without compromising on speed or reliability.
In today’s threat landscape, exposing your origin server directly to the internet is a risk no business can afford to take. Attacks are more sophisticated, bots are more persistent, and the consequences of downtime or a breach have never been more serious. UK Servers Shield was built to change that, giving businesses of all sizes access to the kind of intelligent, multi-layered protection that was once only available to large enterprises with deep pockets.
How It Works
Shield sits in front of your existing web hosting server(s) as an anycast proxy, acting as the first point of contact for every connection that reaches your website. Backed by resilient infrastructure and a network of strategically placed nodes, all traffic is intelligently routed through Shield before it ever touches your origin server, keeping your real IP hidden and your infrastructure protected. To your visitors, everything looks and feels exactly the same. Behind the scenes, Shield is doing the heavy lifting.
A Full Suite of Security Features
This isn’t just a firewall. Shield combines multiple layers of active protection into a single, easy-to-manage service:
- IP Blacklisting & Threat Feed Protection: Connections are checked in real time against known malicious IPs and continuously updated threat intelligence feeds, blocking bad actors before they can do any damage.
- Rate Limiting & Bot Scoring: Automated systems analyse traffic behaviour to identify and throttle suspicious requests, separating genuine visitors from bots and scrapers.
- Country Blocking: Restrict access by geography with simple country-level rules, ideal for businesses that only serve specific regions.
- Crawler Monitoring & Protection: Keep aggressive or unauthorised crawlers under control, protecting your server resources and proprietary content.
- IP Whitelisting: Trusted sources like payment gateways, CRM platforms, and internal office IPs can be whitelisted to ensure they always connect without interruption.
- SSL Offloading: Shield handles HTTPS termination at the proxy layer, reducing the processing load on your origin server and simplifying certificate management across your stack.
Performance You Can See
Security shouldn’t come at the cost of speed, and with Shield it doesn’t. SSL offloading alone reduces the overhead on your origin infrastructure, and our anycast network ensures traffic is always routed efficiently. On top of that, Shield’s built-in performance dashboard gives you real-time visibility into traffic volumes, response times, and threat activity, so you’re never in the dark about what’s happening across your infrastructure.
Flexible Options to Suit Every Business
We know that no two businesses are the same, which is why Shield is built to scale. Customers can choose from shared nodes for cost-effective everyday protection, dedicated IP addresses for greater control and isolation, or fully dedicated proxy servers for businesses with more complex requirements or higher traffic demands. Whatever your setup, Shield can be tailored to fit.
Built in the UK, for UK Businesses
Unlike many global proxy and security services, UK Servers Shield processes all traffic entirely within the UK. Your data never leaves British soil, is never routed through US-owned infrastructure, and is never subject to foreign legislation. For businesses handling sensitive customer data, this isn’t just reassuring – it’s increasingly essential.
- Data Sovereignty: You always know exactly where your data is. Every connection is processed on UK infrastructure, giving you complete confidence over your data’s physical and legal location – something large global providers simply cannot guarantee.
- GDPR Compliance Made Simple: Keeping traffic within the UK makes your compliance story significantly cleaner. There’s no need to worry about data transfers to third countries or complex cross-border data agreements, making Shield an ideal fit for businesses operating under UK or EU GDPR obligations.
- UK-Based Human Support: When something needs attention, you’ll speak to a real person based in the UK, in your timezone, who knows your setup. No overseas call centres, no ticket queues into a global support operation – just straightforward, knowledgeable help when you need it.
UK Servers Shield is available now. Whether you’re protecting a single website or a large multi-server environment, we’d love to help you get set up. Get in touch with our team today to find out which option is right for you.
Find out how we can help your business
To get more information about our services or to see if we can help with issues you are facing, give us a call and speak to our Technical Sales team.
