December 8, 2011

1. CloudFlare Makes Your Site Faster

CloudFlare’s global CDN (Content Delivery Network) has 13 edge nodes around the world. The CDN automatically caches your static files at those edge nodes so the files are stored closer to your visitors while delivering your dynamic content directly from your web server.

CloudFlare then uses a technology called Anycast to route your visitors to the nearest data center. The result is that your website, on average, loads twice as fast for your visitors regardless of where they are located.

2. No Configuration Necessary

You do not have to spend time designating which files to cache. CloudFlare’s technology builds the cache for you based on your traffic and what objects on your site are safe to serve from the edge.

Getting started is as simple as signing up, entering your site info, changing your name servers accordingly with your domain provider, and waiting for CloudFlare to go into action.

3. Security Without Compromise

Forget the confusing control panels of most security products. With CloudFlare, simply choose the security setting for your website. You can choose between High, Medium, Low and Essentially Off. Provide the full armor defense, or stop only the worst threats. Behind the scenes, the CloudFlare system learns about your site and automatically tunes protection to your needs.

CloudFlare shows you the list of threats that have been stopped from reaching your website. You can sort and see threats by type, country origin, and severity. CloudFlare protects against a range of threats: cross site scripting, SQL injection, comment spam, excessive bot crawling, email harvesters, and more.

4. Enhance Further With CloudFlare Apps

CloudFlare makes installing web apps fast, safe and one-click simple. Prior to CloudFlare Apps, installing these web applications required a website owner to change their code and, potentially, decrease performance and increase security risks. CloudFlare Apps brings the web’s leading apps into a single marketplace where they can be installed on any site with only a few clicks of a mouse. View the marketplace.

5. Choose Between CloudFlare Free and Pro

CloudFlare Free provides you with most of the useful features of CloudFlare. CloudFlare Pro offers additional functionality like advanced security features, a site preloaders, a web application firewall, and easy SSL system setup, and much more.

CloudFlare is currently building their Enterprise Edition for users that require even more from CloudFlare.

Read more about the pricing of CloudFlare. Get started today before you lose any traffic or sleep.

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