We are proud to announce our partnership with CloudFlare!
CloudFlare, a web performance and security company, is excited to announce our partnership with 5wire.co.uk! If you havent heard about CloudFlare before, our value proposition is simple: well make any website twice as fast and protect it from a broad range of web threats.
Today, hundreds of thousands of websitesranging from individual blogs to e-commerce sites to the websites of Fortune 500 companies to national governmentsuse CloudFlare to make their sites faster and more secure. We power more than 65 billion monthly page viewsmore than Amazon, Wikipedia, Twitter, Zynga, AOL, Apple, Bing, eBay, PayPal and Instagram combinedand over 25% of the Internets population regularly passes through our network.
Faster web performance
CloudFlare is designed to take a great hosting platform like 5wire.co.uk and make it even better.
We run23 data centers [link to http://www.cloudflare.com/network-map]strategically located around the world. When you sign up for CloudFlare, we begin routing your traffic to the nearest data center.
As your traffic passes through the data centers, we intelligently determine what parts of your website are static versus dynamic. The static portions are cached on our servers for a short period of time, typically less than 2 hours before we check to see if theyve been updated. By automatically moving the static parts of your site closer to your visitors, the overall performance of your site improves significantly.
CloudFlares intelligent caching system also means you save bandwidth, which means saving money, and decreases the load on your servers, which means your web application will run faster and more efficiently than ever. On average, CloudFlare customers see a 60% decrease in bandwidth usage, and a 65% in total requests to their servers. The overall effect is that CloudFlare will typically cut the load time for pages on your site by 50% which means higher engagement and happier visitors.
Broad web security
Over the course of 2011, CloudFlare identified a700% increase in the number of distributed denial of service attacks [link to http://blog.cloudflare.com/2011-the-year-of-the-ddos] (DDoS) we track on the Internet (see the chart below). As attacks like these increase, CloudFlare is stepping up to protect sites.
CloudFlares security protections offer abroad range of protections [link to http://www.cloudflare.com/features-security] against attacks such as DDoS, hacking or spam submitted to a blog or comment form. What is powerful about our approach is that the system gets smarter the more sites that are part of the CloudFlare community. We analyze the traffic patterns of hundreds of millions of visitors in real time and adapt the security systems to ensure good traffic gets through and bad traffic is stopped.
In time, our goal is nothing short of making attacks against websites a relic of history. And, given our scale and the billions of different attacks we see and adapt to every year, were well on our way to achieving that for sites on the CloudFlare network.
Signing up
Any website can deploy CloudFlare, regardless of your underlying platform. By integrating closely with 5wire.co.uk, we make the process of setting up CloudFlare "1 click easy" through your existing 5wire.co.uk [CONTROL PANEL] dashboard. Just look for the CloudFlare icon, choose the domain you want to enable, and click the orange cloud. That's it!
Weve kept the price as low as possible and plans offered through 5wire.co.uk are free. Moreover, we never charge you for bandwidth or storage, therefore saving you tons via reduced bandwidth costs.
For site owners who would like to take advantage of CloudFlare's advanced offerings, we also offer a'Pro' tier of service for $20/month . The 'Pro' tier includes all of the 'Free' tier's offerings, as well as extra features like SSL, full web application firewall and faster analytics.
Were proud that every day more than a thousand new sites, including some of the largest on the web, join the CloudFlare community. If youre looking for a faster, safer website, youve got a good start with 5wire.co.uk, but the next step is tojoin the CloudFlare community.
Perşembe, Ağustos 23, 2012
