Cloud gateways sit between you and your visitors. They control your traffic, cache your content, and hold the keys to your site. ORTHRUS2 runs beside your server — not in front of it.
10 reasons to own your protection instead of renting it
Your uptime should not depend on someone else's infrastructure
Add a point of failure between your server and visitors you have no control over. Their outage is your outage.
Runs beside your server, not between. If unreachable, your site serves normally. Zero dependency.
Can shut down connectivity to your web server at will. Policy dispute, billing issue, or their outage — your site goes dark.
Cannot take your site offline. A filter, not a gatekeeper. Your hosting, your uptime.
When they go down, millions of sites go down together. A single provider outage takes out half the internet. Your site is collateral damage.
Independent per-server deployment. Their outage is not your outage. No shared fate with millions of other sites.
Your data, your code, your visitors — not theirs
Spy on your data and visitor data. Their servers sit between two HTTPS chains as a man-in-the-middle.
Never intercepts traffic. Your TLS terminates at your server. Verifies visitors, doesn't spy on them.
May modify your code without consent or move content to datacenters you didn't choose. Your output, their rules.
Your code stays untouched, on your server, in your datacenter. Full sovereignty.
Like handing over your house keys. You become dependent on them to deliver your content. Leaving means DNS migration and downtime.
One file include. Remove it and you're free. No DNS changes, no migration, no lock-in.
Cache and deliver the wrong version of your pages. Stale content, broken features, visitors seeing outdated information.
Never touches your content. Visitors always get the real page directly from your server.
Pay for protection, not a platform
Bundle features your host already offers — SSL, basic WAF, caching — and charge for the overlap.
Focuses on what hosts lack: bot defense, AI scraping protection, device fingerprinting, PoW challenges.
Constantly upsell premium tiers. Free plan is bait. Real protection is behind the next paywall.
One plan, one price. Every feature included. No tiers, no gating, no surprise charges.
Bloated with CDN, DNS, email routing, analytics. Complexity you never asked for, attack surface you don't need.
Does one thing: protects your site from bots and abuse. Lightweight, focused, under 2MB deployed.
Your server, your rules, your protection. No middleman.