In recent years the web landscape has changed rapidly. The rise of aggressive bots, AI-based crawlers, and non-human traffic is putting pressure on servers and multiplying the risk of slowdowns, downtime, and excessive resource consumption.
To respond to these new challenges, we have expanded our offering with three new services designed to increase the security, speed, and content quality of your Open2b Commerce Ready e-commerce site:
⭐ CDN (Content Delivery Network)
The CDN distributes your site’s static resources across servers that are geographically closer to visitors, dramatically reducing load times.
Benefits:
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Faster pages worldwide
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Less load on the origin server
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Greater stability during traffic spikes
⭐ Automatic image conversion to WebP
Images are automatically optimized into the modern WebP format, which keeps quality high while significantly reducing file size.
Result:
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Up to 30–70% space saved
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Faster loading
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Better user experience and SEO
⭐ WAF (Web Application Firewall)
The WAF protects your e-commerce from aggressive bots, illegal scraping, unauthorized automated requests, attack attempts, and anomalous traffic.
Key benefits:
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Protection against AI bots that ignore robots.txt
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Drastic reduction of unwanted traffic
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Less stress on servers
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Prevention of vulnerabilities and automated attacks
What changes for Open2b customers
To offer maximum value for each type of installation, we have differentiated the new services between Cloud and hosted installations.
🔵 Cloud customers: CDN + WebP included
For all customers using Open2b Commerce Ready in the cloud:
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CDN included
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Automatic WebP conversion included
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WAF available as an optional service
At no extra cost, sites become faster and lighter. Anyone who also wants to increase security can enable the WAF whenever they want.
🟠 Hosted installation customers: single add-on service
For those using Open2b on hosting or a dedicated server, we have created a single package that includes:
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CDN
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WebP conversion
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WAF
All in one solution, with a minimal monthly cost.
It’s the most effective way to protect and speed up a self-hosted installation.
Why we added these services
In recent months we have observed:
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an increase in traffic from AI bots that ignore the robots.txt file
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repeated and unnecessary requests that consume CPU and memory
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increasingly aggressive crawling and scraping
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artificial traffic spikes that degrade performance
To preserve stability, performance, and security for our customers’ e-commerce sites, it was necessary to introduce modern protection and a state-of-the-art content delivery system.
Want to activate these new services?
We’re ready to help you choose the ideal configuration for your online store.
The Open2b Commerce Ready e-commerce platform
Open2b Commerce Ready is the most reliable and high-performance e-commerce platform, developed 100% in Italy and with direct contact with the developers, able to perfectly match the needs of B2B and B2C customers.
If you are not yet our customers, we invite you to try it and to identify with our support how to use it or customize it best.
Tell us about your e-commerce project and you will receive proposals aligned with your needs.
Tel: +39 0587-696200
email: commerciale@open2b.com
