What Are The Features Offered by CloudFlare?

CloudFlare is a content delivery network (CDN) technology that accelerates the website speed and protects the website from various online threats. CloudFlare has very well incorporated the latest changes made to the web server technology, hardware and network routing; it is a next generation CDN! CloudFlare is easy to setup, affordable and presents with a great performance.

CloudFlare’s CDN minimizes hops and lowers the latency. On an average, any request is lower than 10 hops and requires less than 30 minutes. As a result of this, your website gains a global presence in an affordable budget.

The important features offered by CloudFlare are mentioned below:

CloudFlare Increases The Speed Of Your Website

CloudFlare functions through 30 data centers across the globe. All the static files of your website are automatically cached by the CloudFlare CDN at the edge nodes because of which these files are resolved from a network that is closer to your visitors. Your dynamic content is directly delivered through the web server. After this, CloudFlare uses a technology known as Anycast for routing your visitors to the nearest data center. As a result of this, your website loading speed is doubled for all your visitors irrespective of their location.

On an average, a website using CloudFlare has 65% fewer requests and saves 60% of the bandwidth. You will be able to witness significant savings and benefits when you go through your personalized CloudFlare analytics report for your website.

No Need Of Any Configuration

You don’t have to spend time on thinking which files have to be cached. CloudFlare’s technology is smart and brilliant and creates a cache for your website on the basis of your website traffic and by determining whether the objects on your website are save to serve from the edge or not.

Works With Static And Dynamic Content

CloudFlare caches static resources like CSS, JavaScript and images. The dynamic content of your website continues to be served directly from your web server. You can select the sub-domains that you think should be a part of CloudFlare’s CDN and the ones that should be excluded.

Page Rules

Page Rules provide you with complete control of CloudFlare on every page of your website. You can enable full HTML caching, customize the CloudFlare features individually for every page of you website and you can also enable the edge network forwarding for improvising on page delivery even more.

Always Online

CloudFlare will provide a replica of your cached website in the event that your server goes offline for any reason, keeping your website accessible to visitors. Your website’s Always Online version is created by CloudFlare to ensure that your most popular pages are always accessible.

Protection Against Traffic Surges

CloudFlare’s content delivery network (CDN) will mitigate the impact of sudden spikes in traffic, ensuring your server remains available at all times. You will observe that, on average, your server receives 65% fewer requests and 60% less bandwidth usage; this is made possible by CloudFlare’s free plan, which is completely free of cost.

Automatic IPv6

Make your website available to all the visitors on the IPv6 networks with a click of a button. There is no need for upgrading your infrastructure. You can keep the IPv4 infrastructure until you are ready and to the world it will look like you are running your website on a modern dual-sack network.

Great Reliability

CloudFlare has a distributed network, and if there is any issue in any one of the datacenters, visitors to the other data centers remain unaffected. If the issue continues, CloudFlare system can easily reroute the visitors to the next closest data center. Therefore, your visitors get a seamless browsing experience. You can check out CloudFlare’s network map to know more.

Works Well With Other CDNs

In case you are already using a CDN, CloudFlare can work well with it. You have the choice of routing the CDN traffic through CloudFlare first (this will save your money and bandwidth); or you can also bypass CloudFlare altogether for your CDN traffic.

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