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DDoS Protection

Absorb high-volume surge traffic at the edge, identify Layer 7 floods with anomaly detection, and keep clean requests moving to the application. Use Peakhour as your edge, or add Peakhour intelligence to the CDN or edge you already run.

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Diagram showing a traffic surge absorbed by Peakhour edge controls while clean requests continue to the protected application.

Keep Critical Traffic Moving During Layer 7 Attacks

Protect Your Revenue

With our expertise centred on Layer 7, Peakhour's DDoS protection is designed to meticulously safeguard your applications, websites, and web APIs from targeted attacks that could take your business offline and damage customer trust.

Dynamic Adaptation

As cyber threats evolve, so does our defence. Our DDoS protection system adapts to changing attack patterns, ensuring your business continuity without any performance compromise.

Guaranteed Service Availability

Onboard DDoS controls as Peakhour Edge or alongside an existing CDN, with routing, thresholds, alerting, and mitigation evidence prepared before emergency traffic arrives.

From Attack Surge to Clean Delivery

Peakhour's Layer 7 controls work as one mitigation path: detect abnormal floods, enforce rate and bot decisions, apply WAAP policy, and deliver legitimate traffic to origin while preserving operational evidence.

Mitigation for HTTP(S) GET and POST request floods
Protection against SlowLoris and other advanced Layer 7 threats
Robust defence for intricate attack patterns
Real-time threat detection and automatic mitigation
Business continuity assurance with guaranteed uptime

DDoS control stack diagram showing anomaly detection, rate limits, bot signals, WAAP controls, evidence, and a clean path.

Absorb and Shape Flood Traffic at the Edge

When Layer 7 traffic spikes, Peakhour absorbs the surge at the edge and shapes requests before origin capacity is consumed. Teams can define thresholds using network, geography, headers, behavioural attributes, and other request signals instead of relying on IP-only limits.

This keeps distributed floods from overwhelming application infrastructure while legitimate sessions continue through a controlled clean path.

Public services DDoS protection diagram showing edge controls absorbing abusive traffic before protected applications.

Detect, Decide, and Mitigate in One Control Path

Layer 7 anomaly detection, bot signals, and WAAP context are evaluated together so mitigation can be precise instead of broad. Request classes that match attack behaviour are blocked or challenged while trusted traffic keeps flowing.

The same control path supports rapid tuning during incidents, allowing operators to tighten policy as attack patterns shift without disrupting healthy user traffic.

DDoS control stack showing anomaly detection, rate controls, bot signals, and WAAP decisions.

Layered Controls That Adapt as Attacks Change

Threat intelligence, behavioural analysis, and bot controls are continuously evaluated so new attack signatures can be contained before they propagate across your application surface.

Because these controls run in layers, your team can calibrate defences for login, API, and checkout paths independently while maintaining service continuity through sustained attack windows.

Layer 7 DDoS flood diagram showing bot-assisted request traffic filtered with rate limits, WAAP controls, and evidence.

Operational Evidence Confirms Mitigation Performance

Dashboard telemetry is used as production proof, not as the story itself. Operators can validate that attack traffic is being suppressed while clean requests continue through the protected path.

Attack view Flood pressure Observe surge behaviour

Mitigation view Action outcomes Confirm block and challenge activity

Service view Clean delivery Check continuity for legitimate users

DDoS analytics dashboard showing attack patterns, mitigation actions, and normal traffic continuity. — Production evidence

This evidence view ties attack visibility, mitigation decisions, and service continuity together for incident response and post-incident review.

Related evidence

DDoS Pressure Reduced in Production

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COVID-19 Traffic Surge Success

How Australia's #1 online kitchenware retailer thrived during COVID-19's unprecedented traffic surge and achieved 150% revenue growth with Peakhour's performance solutions.

70% Improvement in Load Times 150% Increase in Revenue Year on Year 85% Of All Traffic Served from Cache

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