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CDN with Firewall? (6)

10-06-2015 05:34 PM #1 Monetus (Member)
CDN with Firewall?

I am looking for a CDN / cloud-based service that has a firewall sat in front of it that allows you to import lists of IP addresses/ranges to block.

I have some high volume campaigns that are receiving a lot of bot traffic which I need to block at the firewall level (I tried blocking them with a cloaker/Thrive bot module etc) but the server load was just too heavy with over 35,000 IPs to be checked each time and with a high volume.

So ideally what I need is a CDN with multiple global locations that has a configurable firewall sat in front of it that I can import lists of IPs into. I have found a couple of CDN services (Rackspace for example) that do this in theory but they don't allow you to import a CSV/TXT file of IP addresses (I don't feel like entering 35,000 of them manually!)

Does anyone happen to know a service that does this?

Thanks a lot guys!

10-06-2015 05:44 PM #2 nusolutionz (Veteran Member)

have you tried CloudFlare? They offer a Firewall/DDoS Protection + CDN.

10-06-2015 06:27 PM #3 Monetus (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by nusolutionz View Post
have you tried CloudFlare? They offer a Firewall/DDoS Protection + CDN.
They do offer this but there is a limit on the number of IPs to 1000 and I have over 35000.

They also don't allow you to import a list of IPs with CSV/TXT so they would have to be entered manually line by line.

10-06-2015 08:15 PM #4 zeno (Administrator)

Why not contact Rackspace or similar CDNs directly to ask?

Tell them straight that you are looking to port some business to a CDN provider and have issues with some fraudulent traffic from bots that needs to be blocked at the IP level by a firewall, and whether it would be possible to have their tech support import this list for you directly.

10-27-2015 01:01 PM #5 BeyondHosting-Tyler (Member)

I've never heard of a CDN provider that gives you custom ACLs... it would be really hard to implement something at that level for each customer.

10-28-2015 07:34 AM #6 acepowermarketing (AMC Alumnus)

i think cloudflare does what you need... and its simple to set up. they have something to block the bots, you might want to write in to them to find out?

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