If you haven't heard about Cloudflare before, they can protect most websites from a broad range of web threats. We're happy to partner up with Cloudflare. This added option in cPanel will allow customers to be safer and have their sites run faster.
If you have a high load blog or site, Cloudflare for free can help you lower the load on average to 10-15% lower. The paid version can do even better!
Hundreds of thousands of websites use them every day.
Ranging from individual blogs to e-commerce sites to the websites of Fortune 500 companies to national governments use Cloudflare to make their sites faster and more secure. They power more than 65 billion monthly page views more than Amazon, Wikipedia, Twitter, Zynga, AOL, Apple, Bing, eBay, PayPal, and Instagram combined and over 25% of the Internet's population regularly passes through our network.
Cloudflare runs 23 data centers strategically located around the world. When you sign up for Cloudflare, we begin routing your traffic to the nearest data center.
As traffic passes through the data centers, we intelligently determine what parts of your website are static versus dynamic. The static portions are cached on our servers for a short period, typically under 2 hours, before we check to see if they've been updated. By automatically moving the static parts of your site closer to your visitors, the overall performance of your site improves significantly.
Cloudflare's intelligent caching system also means you save bandwidth, which means saving money and decreases the load on your servers, which means your web application will run faster and more efficiently than ever. On average, Cloudflare customers see a 60% decrease in bandwidth usage and 65% in total requests to their servers. The overall effect is that Cloudflare will typically cut the load time for pages on your site by 50% which means higher engagement and happier visitors.
Broad web security
Cloudflare's security protections offer a broad range of protections against attacks such as DDoS, hacking, or spam submitted to a blog or comment form. What is powerful about our approach is that the system gets smarter with more sites that are part of the Cloudflare community. We analyze the traffic patterns of hundreds of millions of visitors in real-time and adapt the security systems to ensure good traffic gets through and bad traffic is stopped.
