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Edge security for small business sites

Stop Cyberattacks at the Edge Before They Reach Your Site

Cloudflare WAF and edge rules tuned for shops, clinics, agencies, and local services — not enterprise SOCs.

Press StartHow It Works
PRESS START TO PROTECT
  • WAF at the Edge
  • Bot and Spam Filtering
  • No New Hardware
  • Setup in Under a Day

How it gets turned on

Three steps. No new hardware.

  1. 1

    Point DNS at Cloudflare

    Nameservers move. The site keeps the same host. Nothing is reinstalled on the server.

  2. 2

    Turn on WAF and Edge Rules

    Managed rules, rate limits, and bot checks go on in front of homepage, login, and form paths.

  3. 3

    Leave the Origin Alone

    Customers still reach the site. Blocked traffic stops at the edge and never hits your host.

STAGE CLEAR — CONTINUE

What We Block

Four ways a small site gets taken offline, slowed down, or buried.

Cloudflare sits in front of cheap hosting and stops the traffic that hosting was never built to absorb.

Server Exhaustion and Unplanned Downtime

DDoS & Bot Scraping

The problem

Automated scripts, scrapers, and malicious bots hit small business sites thousands of times a minute to scrape pricing, probe logins, or overload contact forms. Cheap hosting such as Namecheap, Hostinger, Bluehost, and NGINX, Apache, has thin resources. When a botnet arrives, the server crashes and real customers see “503 Service Unavailable” or “Error 522 Connection Timed Out.”

The fix

Cloudflare sits in front of the server. It absorbs and filters bad bot traffic on its global edge network before that traffic can touch or crash the origin.

Credential stuffing and form spam

Login Guessing & Fake Leads

The problem

On WordPress and custom systems, bots brute-force /wp-login.php and flood contact forms with fake leads mixed with malicious payloads.

The fix

Bot Fight Mode and WAF challenge pages force an automated client through a browser integrity check. Real visitors pass. Bots are dropped at the edge.

Slow mobile load speeds

The Silent Revenue Killer

The problem

Heavy images and scripts make a local contractor’s page take six seconds on a phone. The visitor hits back and calls a competitor.

The fix

Cloudflare’s CDN caches static files across hundreds of data centers, so nearby customers load the site from a nearby edge instead of the origin host.

The “Not Secure” penalty

Browser Warnings & SEO Drop

The problem

Legacy HTTP or a broken certificate gets a red “Not Secure” label in Chrome and Safari. Google also ranks unsecured sites lower.

The fix

Strict HTTPS through Cloudflare locks the connection, shows the padlock, and removes the insecure-site penalty.

Protection review

Tell us what the site does. We’ll tell you what to lock down.

A 20-minute look at your public site: login paths, forms, admin URLs, and bot traffic. You get a short list of Cloudflare WAF and edge rules that fit a small business, not an enterprise policy pack.

  • What is already exposed
  • What the WAF should block at the edge
  • What can wait

No account access needed for the first look. We reply with a scoped recommendation, not a contract.