# pxShield: the WAF that blocks attacks, not your customers

> Protects from the first request, explains every block, and shows your customers it is working.

Source: https://www.pyxsoft.com/waf
Updated: 2026-11-14

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pxShield is a web application firewall that runs on your own server, in front of Apache, nginx or Caddy. No DNS changes and no cloud service: your traffic stays on your server.

## Measured

On one server with 22 sites, in the last 30 days, pxShield blocked 150,693 attacks (about 5,000 a day) from 3,789 different addresses:

| Attack | Blocked |
|---|---|
| Known bad IP addresses | 57,748 |
| Config and backup files | 35,296 |
| Reading .env secrets | 16,397 |
| .git folders | 5,544 |
| Path traversal | 4,858 |
| Bad bots | 2,374 |
| Database dumps (.sql) | 2,086 |

## What it does

- **Blocks before your web server sees it**: SQL injection, XSS, WordPress brute force, web shell uploads, attempts to read .env files, backups and .git folders, and layer 7 floods with a browser challenge.
- **Protects from day one**: no learning mode. Managed rules that update themselves. Proven on thousands of cPanel accounts.
- **Explains every block**: a plain-English explanation of each block, and one-click exceptions from the panel.
- **Your customers see it working**: a dashboard in every cPanel account with the attacks stopped on their sites.
- Also: blocking by country, custom rules, per-domain policies, and allow and block lists.
- Works behind Cloudflare: it reads the real visitor address.

## Where it runs

- cPanel and WHM: available.
- No panel, Debian and RHEL-based Linux, with Apache, nginx or Caddy: available.
- CorePanel: available. pxShield and the firewall come built into CorePanel; Anti Malware is a paid add-on.
- DirectAdmin: Anti Malware and pxShield available, managed from DirectAdmin (pxShield with any web server: Apache, nginx, LiteSpeed or OpenLiteSpeed); the firewall coming soon.

## Price

€9 per server a month, unlimited sites and accounts. Monthly or yearly (two months free), and packs of 10 servers (10% off) and 25 servers (20% off). With Anti Malware in Pyxsoft Suite: €11. Live prices in your currency: [/pricing](https://www.pyxsoft.com/pricing).

## Install

```
curl -s https://www.pyxsoft.com/install-pxshield | bash
```

7-day free trial, no credit card. Installation on cPanel, DirectAdmin or without a panel: [/docs/getting-started](https://www.pyxsoft.com/docs/getting-started).