About BotGateway

Building the Future of Self-Hosted Bot Protection

The web has changed. Modern websites face AI crawlers, automated reconnaissance, and sophisticated automation that bypasses traditional firewalls. BotGateway provides self-hosted behavioral bot protection that keeps your traffic yours—always.

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Our Mission

Empower organizations to defend their infrastructure from automated threats while keeping complete ownership of their traffic and data.

Instead of sending your visitors through another company's network, BotGateway runs directly inside your own infrastructure, allowing you to inspect, analyze, and control every request before it reaches your application.

Your traffic stays yours. Always.

Why We Built BotGateway

The Problem with Traditional WAFs

Traditional Web Application Firewalls rely on outdated approaches:

  • Static rules and signatures
  • IP reputation systems
  • User-Agent filtering
  • Basic rate limiting
  • Unable to detect modern AI crawlers
Modern Business Concerns

Organizations are increasingly concerned about:

  • AI companies collecting proprietary content
  • Third-party proxy dependencies
  • Data residency requirements
  • GDPR and privacy regulations
  • Vendor lock-in and rising costs

What Makes BotGateway Different

Self-Hosted by Design

Unlike cloud-based security platforms, BotGateway runs directly on your server.

  • Complete traffic ownership
  • Better privacy & latency
  • Greater operational control
  • Simplified compliance
Behavioral Analysis First

Focus on behavioral analysis instead of relying solely on signatures.

  • Request behavior analysis
  • Browser characteristics
  • Session consistency
  • Navigation patterns
  • Adaptive risk scoring
AI Crawler Governance

Visibility and control over AI crawlers without blocking legitimate search engines.

  • GPTBot management
  • ClaudeBot control
  • Crawler policies
  • Access monitoring

Built for Developers

BotGateway was designed for developers, DevOps engineers, and infrastructure teams who prefer simplicity. Installation takes only a few minutes and integrates easily into existing environments.

Supported Environments

Ubuntu
Debian
Docker
DigitalOcean
Hetzner
OVHcloud
Vultr
AWS Lightsail
Reverse proxy deployments
Self-managed VPS

Who Uses BotGateway

BotGateway is designed for organizations that operate their own infrastructure. Whether you manage one server or hundreds, BotGateway helps reduce unwanted automated traffic.

SaaS platforms
APIs
AI applications
E-commerce stores
Content publishers
Agencies
Marketplaces
Developer tools

Our Principles

Privacy First

Customer traffic should remain under the customer's control.

Transparency

Security decisions should be understandable, measurable, and configurable.

Performance

Security should protect applications without becoming a bottleneck.

Developer Experience

Powerful software should remain easy to install, configure, and maintain.

Continuous Innovation

As automated threats evolve, BotGateway continuously improves detection capabilities.

Decentralized Security

Organizations deserve security platforms that respect privacy and reduce vendor lock-in.

Our Vision

We believe the future of web security is decentralized. Organizations deserve security platforms that respect privacy, reduce dependence on external infrastructure, and provide complete visibility into automated traffic.

Our long-term vision is to become the leading platform for:

  • Self-hosted bot protection
  • AI crawler governance
  • Behavioral threat detection
  • Privacy-first web security
  • Developer-friendly infrastructure