CloudFlare is basically a content delivery network (CDN) and distributed domain name server (DNS) given as a transparent service layer. CloudFlare sits between your site and your visitors and acts like a invert intermediary; demonstrating improved security, site execution and speed.
When your site is setup to utilize CloudFlare its web activity is directed through their worldwide organize rather than being served straightforwardly to the visitor. This permits CloudFlare to upgrade your webpages for the fastest load times and best client execution. It too has the advantage of acting as a security layer, securing your site from dangers such as distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and constraining the affect of bots and crawlers, sparing you wasted bandwidth and server resources.
Cloudflare also uses intelligent routing over its 200 data centres, deliberately found over the globe. On the Reliability front, ClouFlare turns out to be one of the foremost in the industry with 738 billion DNS queries resolved per day across 25 million internet properties which includes major e-com sites, govt agencies, and enterprises.
FEATURES OF CLOUDFLARE
- Mitigate DDoS attack: Offering robust protection against DDoS for websites, applications, and entire networks, CloudFlare blocks over 57billion threats per day.
- Globally Load Balanced CDN: Intelligent load balancing strategies spread over 200+ data centres across the globe, ensure minimal chances of congestion.
- Static Content Caching: Strategically located edge servers, cache content for faster delivery, reducing latency issues.
- Argo Smart Routing: Cloudflare makes use of Argo’s smart routing algorithm to intelligently route traffic through the fastest network paths.
- Geo-based Routing: Global Load Balancing ensures your web application visitors get served content from the servers closest to them.
- Streaming: Cloudflare offers an economical and easy-to-use, on-demand streaming platform.
- Mobile Optimization: Cloudflare Mirage, through its virtualized and lazy-loaded images, detects the type of the browser on the user’s machine and automatically adapts, optimizing for performance.
- Argo Tunnel: Cloudflare can help you create an encrypted tunnel between the nearest data center and the origin server to ensure fully secure communication.
- Deploy Intelligence to Identify New Threats: Cloudflare comes with intelligent systems that learn from attacks on any site and extend improved protection based on this learning to all other sites instantly.
- Analytics: Deep insights and intelligence that takes a granular approach to your cached data, offering rich product-specific dashboards, also allowing custom dashboards using GraphQL and Analytics API.
Who can use CloudFlare?
CloudFlare can be used with any web platform, be that ASP.NET, PHP, Ruby or Node.js – it doesn’t get in the way of your development and deployment. It is very simple to set up and doesn’t require any server side configuration or installation; you simply change your domain DNS to use the CloudFlare name servers, let it import your existing DNS settings and then configure which subdomains you wish to have protected and enhanced. If you ever want to stop using it, you simply revert back to your old name servers.
Steps to use CloudFlare CDN:
Step 1 − Open CloudFlare interface by clicking CloudFlare found in the cPanel Home under CloudFlare – Supercharge your website section.
Step 2 − In CloudFlare Interface under Sign Up / Log In, Enter your email address and click Signup Now. If you have an existing account with CloudFlare, it will ask you to login, otherwise it will sign you up.
Step 3 − Once you are logged in, you can see the status of your domain in overview section of CloudFlare interface. You will need to change your current Nameservers to those provided by CloudFlare to use it with your website. If you do not like services of CloudFlare, then you can change your domain’s Nameservers back to default.
