Case Study: Bitstamp achieves high availability, robust DDoS protection and scalable load balancing with Incapsula

Bitstamp Maximizes Website Security and Availability with Incapsula’s DDoS Protection and Load Balancing

Bitstamp, founded in 2011 and one of the world’s largest bitcoin exchanges, runs a high‑volume, time‑sensitive online trading platform and faced growing traffic and targeted attacks. The company needed more than basic DDoS protection: it required enterprise‑grade mitigation combined with advanced, non‑DNS load balancing and automatic failover to ensure consistent performance and near‑continuous availability, since its previous TTL‑based DNS solution caused slow rerouting and impaired the user experience.

Bitstamp adopted Imperva Incapsula’s Enterprise plan—always‑on DDoS protection, an enterprise WAF, application‑level load balancer and global CDN—and quickly added a second server for load distribution and failover. Incapsula filters all incoming traffic, blocks layers 3/4/7 attacks, provides intelligent request‑level load balancing with built‑in monitoring and real‑time statistics, and delivered high availability, consistent performance and virtually zero business disruption.

Bitstamp

Luka Kodric

System and Network Engineer