We are excited to announce our partnership with CloudFlare, a web performance and security company! If you haven't heard of CloudFlare before, the value proposition is simple: we'll make any website twice as fast and protect it from a broad range of web threats.
Today, hundreds of thousands of websites - from individual blogs to e-commerce sites to Fortune 500 companies and national governments - use CloudFlare to make their sites faster and more secure. The platform powers more than 65 billion monthly page views, and over 25% of the Internet's population regularly passes through their network.
Faster web performance
CloudFlare runs data centres strategically located around the world. When you sign up, traffic is routed to the nearest data centre. As your traffic passes through, CloudFlare intelligently determines which parts of your website are static versus dynamic. The static portions are cached on their servers for a short period, typically less than 2 hours, before checking whether they've been updated. By automatically moving the static parts of your site closer to your visitors, overall performance improves significantly.
CloudFlare's intelligent caching also means you save bandwidth and decrease the load on your servers. On average, customers see a 60% decrease in bandwidth usage and a 65% reduction in total requests to their servers - typically cutting page load time by 50%.
Broad web security
CloudFlare's protections defend against DDoS attacks, hacking and spam. The system gets smarter the more sites are part of the CloudFlare community, analysing traffic patterns in real time to ensure good traffic gets through while bad traffic is stopped.