At 247Garden, our mission is simple: to provide gardeners, growers, and professionals with the highest quality grow bags, PVC fittings, and garden essentials at the best possible prices. But as our customer base grew, so did unwanted attention from bots, scrapers, and scalpers.

Over time, we began noticing troubling signs. Pages that once loaded instantly became sluggish. Customers reported slower browsing and cart delays. Meanwhile, our monitoring dashboard told the story: server CPU usage was spiking to over 300% daily, overwhelming our web infrastructure and threatening the shopping experience for real customers.

We knew we needed a solution—something powerful enough to defend against automated attacks, yet lightweight and easy to deploy. That’s why we turned to Anubis.

What is Anubis?

Anubis is a modern security layer that weighs the risk of every incoming HTTP request. Acting like the guardian at the gates, Anubis quietly evaluates traffic in real time, deciding who’s welcome and who’s not. If a visitor looks suspicious, Anubis can issue a challenge—yet it requires no extra clicks or actions from genuine users.

In short, customers shop without interruption, while malicious bots are silently turned away.

Why We Chose Anubis

1. Easy to Use

Unlike bulky firewalls or complicated cloud solutions, Anubis runs quietly in the background. We didn’t need to re-engineer our website. Deployment was seamless, and Anubis required no ongoing babysitting.

2. Lightweight Performance

Anubis lives up to its promise of being feather-light. Consuming less than 128 MB of RAM, it’s barely noticeable on our servers. This is a major difference compared to traditional security systems that often eat into hosting resources.

3. Real Protection Against Scrapers and Scalpers

The real win came when Anubis began blocking malicious bots and scrapers. With customizable rules and smart heuristics, Anubis now filters out the traffic that was draining our resources. The effect was immediate: CPU usage dropped from 300% down to just 24%.

That means smoother browsing, faster checkout, and a better experience for every gardener who visits 247Garden.

The Results

  • Before Anubis:
    • 300% CPU usage daily
    • Slow website speeds
    • Customer frustration
  • After Anubis:
    • 24% CPU usage
    • Lightning-fast browsing
    • Stable, secure shopping environment

Anubis didn’t just save our servers—it gave our customers the seamless shopping experience they deserve.

Conclusion

For us at 247Garden, choosing Anubis was about more than reducing hosting costs or cutting CPU load. It was about ensuring our customers can shop for grow bags, PVC fittings, and gardening supplies without interruptions.

Anubis is the silent guardian of our website, keeping scrapers, scalpers, and bots at bay while letting real growers thrive.

If your website is slowing down under the weight of bots, it may be time to weigh the soul of your traffic with Anubis—just like we did!