What is Cloud Flare?

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May 21, 2013, 4:04 pm

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What is Cloud Flare?

A friend of mine was bragging about having Cloud Flare for his site. Can someone explain what Cloud Flare does for a site and how it works?

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robertman11

robertman11

CloudFlare is a CDN that is different. You host your DNS with them and they protect your site from attacks like ddos but also automatically download your CSS, images and static files. They then put these files all around the world so everyone who accesses your site gets the content faster.

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Quinton

Quinton

Most times, Cloudflare is a good thing, except for right after a site update, when they're still showing a cached image of your site to visitors.

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anirban09P

anirban09P

CloudFlare is a free service that accelerates and secures your website by acting as a proxy between your visitors and HostGator servers. With CloudFlare, you can protect your website against malicious visitors, save bandwidth and reduce average page load times.

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DewlanceVPS

DewlanceVPS

CloudFlare is work as a proxy, Your main server IP will be hide or behind CF.

Means your main IP will be hidden from public. CF free plan does not give any good or excellent security.

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dragonhunter95

dragonhunter95

Hey, It is nice discussion. Though I don't have much to add, I have much to get. Thank you all for great detail.

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zainshuja

zainshuja

CloudFlare protects your website against malicious visitors, save bandwidth and reduce average page load times. Once CloudFlare is enabled for your website, it is designated as your authoritative name servers; this allows CloudFlare to clean and accelerate your traffic as all requests to your website are now routed through CloudFlare. With network routing technology and 23 data centers around the world.

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