How Peakhour Works
Peakhour operates as a Reverse Proxy on a global ANYCast network. We position ourselves between clients browsing your site and your web server. We optimise and cache your website content on our EDGE network and protect you from attacks.
Your website WITHOUT Peakhour
When a client types your website domain into their browser, it sends a DNS request to find the IP address of your server. This process resembles looking up a phone number. Once the browser receives the IP address, it contacts your server for the required information.
Your website WITH Peakhour
With Peakhour, our IP address appears in DNS for your website. All requests come to us first. We act as an intermediary, handling all incoming requests and only involving your server when necessary.
Global Anycast Network
Peakhour provides multiple intermediaries around the world. Each handles incoming requests from their local region. If one goes offline, the request automatically routes to the next closest one.
CDN+
When we handle a request, we:
- Ensure request security with SSL/TLS
- Block automated traffic using Bot management
- Block malicious requests with our Cloud WAF
- Serve from cache when possible using our CDN and Dynamic Content Caching
- Optimise response size and speed through Content optimisation and Image Optimisation