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Use cases: how each industry uses Edgium
The examples below start from common situations in each type of company. For each one: the problem, how it looks with Edgium, and what changes day to day. Pick the one closest to your case.
Online stores and e-commerce
The situation
The Black Friday campaign starts at midnight. Traffic spikes, the product page slows down, and bots use the rush to test passwords and copy prices.
What changes
The store opens fast at the peak, the server does not need to be sized for the worst day, and the Google speed score improves.
Products used: CDN and WAF, DDoS protection
How it looks with Edgium
- The CDN serves images, scripts and pages from the edge, already compressed. The origin handles only the cart and payment.
- The WAF challenges bots and blocks by country, IP and user-agent before the request reaches the store.
- DDoS protection absorbs the attack that often comes with the date.
- The domain without www (
yourstore.com) is protected without a CNAME, and the DNS stays at your registrar.
Internet providers (ISPs) and hosting
The situation
Every week, a random subdomain attack takes down the authoritative DNS. Customer sites and email stop, and support fills up with tickets.
What changes
Fewer sleepless nights, fewer support tickets and a new selling point.
Products used: DNS Firewall, DNS Slave
How it looks with Edgium
- The DNS Firewall sits in front of your nameservers. Zones stay on your BIND or PowerDNS, and the attack stops at the edge.
- For the zones you want out of the line of fire for good, use DNS Slave: your server becomes a hidden master and never shows up on the internet.
- Nameservers with your brand (
ns1.yourprovider.com), answering from the anycast network. - Protected DNS becomes one more service to sell to business customers.
Systems, SaaS and APIs
The situation
The system runs in two clouds and listens on port 8443. When a region goes down, customers stay offline until someone changes the DNS by hand.
What changes
A region going offline stops being an incident for the customer, and maintenance happens without a downtime window.
Products used: Load Balancer, CDN and WAF
How it looks with Edgium
- The Load Balancer runs health checks on the origins all the time and removes the failing one from the route (automatic failover).
- The CDN listens on the application port, with WebSocket for live dashboards and notifications.
- Access logs go by syslog to your server, for auditing and compliance.
- The origin IPs stay hidden, and the origins accept connections only from Edgium.
News portals, blogs and media
The situation
A story goes viral and traffic spikes within minutes. At the same time, other sites copy your images, and you pay for the bandwidth.
What changes
The portal stays up when it matters most, and the bandwidth bill goes down.
Products used: CDN and WAF
How it looks with Edgium
- The cache absorbs the peak: the same page leaves the edge for thousands of readers, without touching the origin.
- Hotlink protection makes images load only on your domain.
- Brotli compression and HTTP/3 for readers on mobile.
- Cache and expiration times per content type, adjusted in the panel.
VoIP telephony and SIP servers
The situation
The SIP server has a public IP and gets scanned and attacked all day. When the server goes down, calls stop.
What changes
Calls keep going even with a server offline, and the SIP server leaves the line of fire.
Products used: Load Balancer, DDoS protection
How it looks with Edgium
- The Load Balancer passes SIP through the edge: the phone connects to Edgium, and Edgium delivers to the available server.
- The server IP stays hidden, with blocking by source and SYN floods stopped at the edge.
- More than one server behind a single address, with automatic failover.
Companies with ERP, databases and their own email server
The situation
The ERP with SQL Server and the email server sit in the company datacenter, with an exposed IP. Branches and sales reps connect from anywhere.
What changes
Systems reachable from anywhere, without the server exposed on the internet.
Products used: Load Balancer, DNS Firewall, Managed DNS
How it looks with Edgium
- The Load Balancer passes MySQL, SQL Server and SMTP through the edge, without showing the real IP of the servers.
- Blocking by country and by source: only the right people get in.
- Have your own DNS in the datacenter? The DNS Firewall sits in front of it, and the attack does not reach the server.
- Managed DNS with DNSSEC for the company domain.
- If needed, a cloud joins in for the peak and the datacenter keeps working.
Agencies and web developers
The situation
The agency looks after dozens of client sites, each with DNS in a different place, certificates expiring and clients asking for the site without www.
What changes
Less time putting out fires and one more service to offer clients.
Products used: CDN and WAF, Managed DNS
How it looks with Edgium
- Each site is an application in the panel, with its own cache, WAF and certificate rules.
- SSL certificate issued and renewed by Edgium (Let's Encrypt), with no calendar reminders.
- Root domain without a CNAME, on the DNS where the client already is.
- Managed DNS with your own branded nameservers, for those who want to centralize.
Recognize your case?
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