Getting Started

1. Create an account

Sign up at control.gatewaysentry.com/register, then add a balance. Each protected IP has a monthly rental that is charged when you request it, so the address is not provisioned until that first charge is covered. Bandwidth is billed on what you actually serve, and attack traffic is never billed.

2. Provision a protected IP

In the dashboard, request a protected IP: choose an edge cluster and give the public IP of the origin server you want protected.

Once the rental is paid the address is provisioned and pointed at your origin. It arrives switched off, so turn it on when your backend is ready to take traffic.

3. Point traffic at it

Update your DNS A record to the protected IP. Game servers using a custom port can use an SRV record instead. Once DNS propagates, traffic reaches the edge first and only clean packets are forwarded to your origin.

4. Verify

Watch the live traffic view in the dashboard as connections arrive. The analytics page shows clean and dropped traffic separately, so you can see exactly what the edge is absorbing on your behalf.

Optional hardening

• Lock your origin firewall down to accept traffic only from the edge, so attackers cannot bypass protection by hitting your origin directly.
• Add your own monitoring and backend ranges as trusted networks so the edge always recognizes them as yours.
• Game servers: enable game query caching so server-browser queries are answered from the edge.