DDoS Protection L3–L7, absorbed at the edge.
Karbon is a reverse-proxy DDoS protection platform that absorbs volumetric, protocol, and application-layer (Layer 7) attacks before they reach your origin. A drop-in Cloudflare alternative for startups that need real website Layer 7 protection without enterprise pricing.
Edge absorption
Volumetric floods are soaked up across the edge network before they ever touch your origin. Tbps-scale capacity, anycast routing.
Layer 7 mitigation
Application-layer floods — HTTP GET/POST storms, slowloris, cache-busting — are scored and challenged in milliseconds, not minutes.
Always-on, no reroute
Traffic is always inspected inline. No BGP swing, no detection delay, no waiting for an attack to cross a threshold.
Reverse-proxy drop-in
Point your DNS at Karbon and keep your origin private. No agent, no kernel module, no rearchitecting.
Frequently asked questions
- How is this different from Cloudflare?
- Karbon is a reverse-proxy DDoS protection service built for startups: transparent pricing, Layer 7 mitigation on every plan, and AI scoring rather than static rule trees. You point DNS at us and your origin stays hidden — the same model, without enterprise gating.
- What is a Layer 7 DDoS attack?
- A Layer 7 (application-layer) attack floods your app with seemingly valid HTTP requests — logins, searches, API calls — to exhaust CPU and database capacity. Volume looks low at the network layer but is devastating at the app. Karbon fingerprints and challenges these in real time.
- Does it protect APIs as well as websites?
- Yes. The same reverse proxy fronts REST, GraphQL, and gRPC endpoints, applying rate limits and behavioral scoring to API traffic just like web traffic.