CloudFlare Can Make Your Site Faster – and More Secure!
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Content Distribution Networks – CDN – technology has come a long way over the years. In 2013, CloudFlare is leading the way with a new generation CDN that is secure, seamless and very easy to install and get going. Compare this with first generation CDN networks that were cobbled together. Keep reading if you want to learn how to use CloudFlare to make your website run faster while at the same time protecting it against spammers and other malicious attacks.
How CloudFlare Makes Your Website Safer
As with other features on the CloudFlare service, you get a lot of control over the various security settings for your website. You can set using a preset option – think low, medium or high security – or you can go in and turn knobs and dials individually until you come up with what works best for you.
The dashboard allows you to see all the bad traffic you have blocked – as well as a simple breakdown of search engine crawlers that have visited your website. You’re going to be amazed when you see how many attacks happen against your website on a daily basis. If you get any amount of traffic, a certain percentage is going to be spammers or malicious attacks.
How CloudFlare Makes Your Website Faster
If you sign-up for the free service only, you’re going to receive a CDN (that’s easy to setup) for all your static content resources. Additionally, you’ll get access to Rocket Loader, which offers synchronous loading of JavaScript resources and Auto Minify to make your file sizes smaller. Pro and Business class accounts get other features like automatic image optimization on the fly. Yes, you heard that right. All of these can dramatically decrease the page load times for your website.
Is CloudFlare Right For You?
Easy answer? Probably. Even if you sign-up for the free service to test it out, within a couple days you should be able to notice a difference. There’s a very good chance that you’re going to at least see a small improvement. On the other end of the spectrum, you may be amazed at how much faster your website runs – while being more secure as well. Sign-up today and see for yourself the different CloudFlare can make.
If you already have experience with using CloudFlare services, leave a comment below and share your experience with the rest of us. This next generation CDN is light years ahead of the competition. Finally, it’s easy to make your website safer and faster at the same time without a lot of work. The best news is that there’s a good chance they’re going to be improving the service in the years ahead, making it even better.
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