What is Cloudflare?
CloudFlare protects and accelerates any website online. Once your website is a part of the CloudFlare community, its web traffic is routed through their intelligent global network. CloudFlare automatically optimize the delivery of your web pages so your visitors get the fastest page load times and best performance. CloudFlare also block threats and limit abusive bots and crawlers from wasting your capacity and server resources. The result: CloudFlare-powered websites see a significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks.
How easy is it to implement?
Well, you have two methods here:
Method 1
Register for your free account at cloudflare.com. You’ll be guided through an easy setup wizard, and then you can change your domain’s DNS Nameservers to that of Cloudflare’s.
Method 2
Cloudflare is now installed as a new feature in cPanel. If your web host doesn’t advertise it, they haven’t installed it. After you sign in to CPanel and click the Cloudflare app, you can run through an easy setup to move your DNS over to Cloudflare. Once this is done, all your traffic is routed through Cloudflare’s network. Better yet, you can manage your Cloudflare account from within CPanel.
Why should I bother?
It makes your site faster. Cloudflare has over 23 data centers around the world. What it does is pick out the closest data center near your visitors in order to give them the fastest experience.
You’re always online. If, for those brief few minutes, your website goes offline, Cloudflare kicks in and serves a cached copy of your website, delivering static pages to your visitors. What will happen if they go to a login page or a client area? Cloudflare will notify the user that they’re viewing an offline version of the website.
Optimizes your code—Cloudflare automatically caches your static content, CSS, JavaScript, HTML Files, and images to deliver your pages quicker. It also automatically “minifies” your JavaScript and CSS code to save as much bandwidth as possible.
Apps – What software platform is only complete with an app marketplace? Cloudflare includes a to-enable list of addons that automatically inject required code into your pages. Examples of addons are (Google Analytics & UserVoice)
