CloudFlare Online Free Service
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Founded
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July
2009
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Headquarter(s)
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San
Francisco, California, U.S
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Fonder(s)
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Matthew
Prince (CEO)
Lee
Holloway
Michelle
Zatlyn
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Product
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CloudFlare
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Services
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Website
performance,
security-as-a-service
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Alexa
Rank
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1,202
(September 2014)
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The CloudFlare is
one of the online free best CDN service which improves/accelerate the performance
of the website and also the CloudFlare provides security to the website which
is acting as a proxy b/w the visitors and the HostGator servers. The CloudFlare
also protects the websites online against the malicious visitors/users/hackers,
reduce/decrease the page load times and also the CloudFlare save the bandwidth
etc. The CloudFlare Free online service is also providing us the content
delivery network which is actually distributed the domain name server sitting
b/w the new users/visitors and hosting provider by the CloudFlare user.
The free online CND service the CloudFlare was founded/created
in 2009 by the Matthew Prince (CEO), the
Lee Holloway, and the Michelle Zatlyn and at September, 2010 in
the conference of TechCrunch Disrupt they
(the founder(s)) lunched the CloudFlare free service. And in July 2011, they
said that is receiving $20 million in venture funding.
The CloudFlare free online service speeds up/accelerates,
provide protection and also improves the performance of the websites and also
the availability for a website and for the mobile applications too. The CloudFlare
is also providing the content delivery network which is used to optimize the
websites and the mobile pages where this network helps us to decrease/reduce
the page load times and to improve the website performance very easily and
quickly. The CloudFlare blocks the threats and also limits the abusive bots and
also the crawlers from saving the bandwidth. The CloudFlare free online service
is very useful just because of that the CloudFlare is also providing us the useful
free online service like a web application firewall or the WAF.
The CloudFlare has introduced the new kind of very useful
tool that is the Keyless SSL
technology which is really a new different type of encryption tool and is very
useful that it enables the websites to use the CloudFlare service that is SSL
service.
The CloudFlare technology that is the Keyless SSL technology of CloudFlare is the
advancement of Transport Layer Security protocol or the TLS protocol and this TLS
protocol ensures the privacy communication b/w the different websites and the browsers
online. Each times when the visitor is accessing to the secure websites like
the financial portals then many tasks/actions take place behind the scenes which
is not visible to the visitor but these tasks is only to make sure that all of the
transactions & the activities remain secure, safe and private etc.
- How
CloudFlare works?
When you enable the CloudFlare service for your website
then the CloudFlare designates your authoritative name servers and this will
allows the CloudFlare to speed up, to accelerate the traffic, to clean up,
improves the website performance and also to decrease/reduce in the page load
times etc. The new and the unique features of the CloudFlare helps us
The CloudFlare service, their global Anycast network is use
for routing the customers/visitors to the closest datacenter and is resulting
in decreasing/reducing the websites loading time two times faster before the
original time loading and also as they can for the visitors of your website
they can.
- To
fight against the malicious visitors or Hackers
The CloudFlare is also fighting against the malicious
visitors or hackers and also the CloudFlare service is receiving the requests
for your site or anyone else sites on which the CloudFlare is enable and the
CloudFlare is also analyzing these websites to determine that if a visitor is a
threat based on their IP (internet protocol) or not. If it is threaten then as
soon as these threats are blocked by the CloudFlare service and your website is
secure, safe and is running well on the best way it can and also the CloudFlare
service only leaves the good visitors which do not base of IP threat and
enables them to have a quick access the pages which they are requesting or
searching etc.
The CloudFlare service also caches the static contents on
your website or any other website on which the CloudFlare is enabled and these
cached contents are like the images, the CSS scripts, and the JavaScript but
not HTML scripts. And then these cached contents are refreshed more quickly and
frequently and is then delivered directly to visitors/users from the local
CloudFlare data center with a great speed approximately with the speed of light.
- To
Optimize the web contents
The Rocket Loader
technology is including all of the CloudFlare plans and also even the free one and
helps you and your website to more quickly and easily processing requests for the
third party scripts such as the Gadgets, the widgets, the applications and also
the tags and labels etc. This Rocket Loader Technology is ensuring that no
script will block your website page contents from loading the bundle of all the
script requests into a single and only in one request.
- Activation
of the CloudFlare service
The following steps for the activation of the CloudFlare
service or to enable it for your website through cPanel based on the shared and
the reseller plans is as under.
- Login/sign in into your
cPanel is the first step.
- The second step is
that check below the services section you will see the CloudFlare icon simply
click on it.
- After this, the third
next step is to enter your valid email address and click to the checkbox to
accept CloudFlare Terms of Service.
- The fourth step is
simply to click on the Signup Now button and very quickly you will redirect or
jump to the Activation page of the CloudFlare service.
- The next important
step is to set up the site on which you are going to enable the CloudFlare,
simply click on edit.
- Below the CloudFlare
status, just click on gray cloud for activation or to enable the CloudFlare service
for the domain you have.
- After this the gray
cloud will change to another cloud that is to the orange cloud and after this a
message will display at the top of your screen for confirming the successful
activation. Of the CloudFlare service.
Once
you have enabled the CloudFlare service. Then you can access the settings and also
the news and reports for your website from the CloudFlare dashboard and will
enjoy a lot using the CloudFlare service for your website.
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