CloudFlare FAQ

What is CloudFlare?

A free program called CloudFlare serves as a conduit between website visitors and the server. Any kind of website may be accelerated and protected online using CloudFlare. Your website’s web traffic is routed through a sophisticated global network once it joins the CloudFlare community. To ensure that your visitors have the shortest page load times and optimal website performance, the delivery to your web pages is automatically adjusted. With CloudFlare, malicious crawlers are prevented from wasting your bandwidth and other server resources, while website threats and abusive bots are prohibited.

As a result, a website using CloudFlare has a noticeable boost in performance along with a decrease in spam and other types of assaults.

With which packages CloudFlare is offered?

CloudFlare is offered with all the cPanel shared hosting and cPanel reseller hosting packages.

What are the major differences in a website when it uses CloudFlare?

• The website loads 30% faster
• The website uses 60% less bandwidth
• The website generates 65% lesser requests

How Does CloudFlare Improve Website Performance?

Proxy servers operated by CloudFlare are dispersed around the globe. These proxy servers are situated in closer proximity to the visitors’ location. This means that instead of receiving the cached material straight from the server, your visitors will see improvements in the speed at which pages load.

How does threat protection Work In CloudFlare?

CloudFlare utilizes data through Project Honey Pot, from other third party sources and also from its community for identifying the malicious threats online and for stopping the attacks before they get to your website. You can check which threats are being stopped from attacking your website through the CloudFlare dashboard.

Is spam comments protection provided by CloudFlare?

Yes spam comments protection is provided. CloudFlare leverages the data from all the third party resources for reducing the number of spam comments on your website.

What are the other advantages of using CloudFlare?

Other advantages of CloudFlare include the following:

Alerting visitors of infected computers : CloudFlare alerts the human visitors that have an infected computer. This information is important to the visitors as they need to take the right action on cleaning up the malware and virus on their machine. This kind of visitor will have to enter a captcha for entering your website.

Always online mode : In case the CloudFlare server is not available, visitors will still be able to access your website because CloudFlare serves your website through its cache.

Less CPU Usage : As less number of requests hit the server, the overall CPU usage of your account is lowered.

Statistics : CloudFlare’s system maintains statistics on every hit and offers an important and useful insight in terms of the search engine crawlers and threats.

What are the limitations of the CloudFlare system?

The internal statistics application that pulls data straight from the Apache logs may be impacted by CloudFlare. Google Analytics and other web-based analytics tools that use Java scripts won’t be impacted by CloudFlare. Your website’s static content is cached by CloudFlare. Although doing so lessens the strain on the servers, it also means that any modifications you make to any already-existing static files may not be shown right away. You will need to switch CloudFlare to “Development Mode” in order to prevent this and ensure that the modifications take effect right away.

Who can use CloudFlare?

CloudFlare is suitable for all types of websites including the dynamic websites.

How much time is required to sign up on CloudFlare?

CloudFlare sign up hardly takes two minutes. In case you don’t like the CloudFlare services, you can unsubscribe from them within a minute.