What is Cloudflare?
Cloudflare is a popular security and performance service that provides a level of protection for websites by intercepting, analyzing, and acting on malicious traffic.
It also helps to speed up your website by using cached templates from your website and store it to many servers around the world.
Cloudflare is an insanely popular website security company that has grown so popular in recent years. They offer services to help protect websites from malicious traffic, both in terms of security and performance.
How does Cloudflare work?
Security
How many times you’ve entered a website and you see Cloudflare loading before content appears? Yes, Cloudflare is protecting this website from bad bots, hackers and attackers or anyone wants to DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) your website.
Cloudflare puts a shield around your website, hides your server IP to make sure your website 100% protected from any malicious traffic.
Performance and Speed
Cloudflare provides the best CDN (Content Delivery Network) in the world for free.
It’s a very simple process, every time someone visits your website, Cloudflare searches for the nearest server to the visitor then it delivers a cached version of your website.
Want to speed your Website on mobile? Check this guide: What is AMP? How to add AMP to WordPress?
How to add your website to Cloudflare?
I made a 5 steps simple guide of how to add a website to Cloudflare for beginners, it does not matter if you’ve a WordPress blog or Joomla or even full HTML static website.
Click here : How to add a website to Cloudflare (Step by Step Tutorial)
How much Cloudflare costs?
For website CDN, Cloudflare offers a free plan with plenty of options and unlimited websites to add.
There are other paid plans:
Pro : $20 per month
Business : $200 per month
Enterprise : Custom price
What is Cloudflare Services?
They have too many Products and services, that starts with a domain provider to high application security, but let’s start with the most important ones.
DDoS Protection : Block DDoS attacks of any size and kind.
SSL / TLS Encryption : Issue and manage certificates in Cloudflare.
CDN (Content Delivery Network) : Static and dynamic content delivery.
DNS : Fastest, most resilient and secure authoritative DNS.
Web Application Firewall (WAF) : Protect your business-critical web applications from malicious attacks.
You can explore all the products of Cloudflare Product Portfolio.
What is Cloudflare DNS
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Cloudflare DNS is a service that can offer fast response times and lots of security features. It’s the perfect choice if you’re looking for DDoS mitigation and DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) as well as other enterprise-grade services.
It’s fast and safe, Cloudflare’s DNS is the world’s fastest and most reliable public DNS resolver.
Cloudflare Speed Test
You can check your internet speed or to check network performance using Cloudflare Speed Test.
