CloudFlare Hosting
Our Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a group of connected servers located worldwide that automatically identifies the fastest route to deliver your site to your visitors. Our CDN service will help your site load 30% faster on average by delivering your content from servers closest to your visitors..
Getting started is super easy! You just need to log into your cPanel and look for the CloudFlare icon. With two clicks, you can activate CloudFlare Hosting and you will be taking advantage of CloudFlare Hosting meaning your website will automatically be faster and safer around the world.
We are pleased to offer you the CloudFlare Hosting for FREE. There is no commitment. Turning CloudFlare on and off takes two clicks of the mouse, so feel free to try it out. We think you’ll like it!
…But before you jump in with both feet, why not take a moment to read through the guest blog post below. It has been very kindly provided by CloudFlare, and includes full details on the many benefits CloudFlare Hosting could bring to your website
How CloudFlare Hosting increases speed and security of your site
This is a guest post written and contributed by CloudFlare. CloudFlare makes it easy for any site to be as fast and secure as the Internet giants.
CloudFlare, a web performance and security company, is excited to announce our partnership with D9 Hosting! If you haven’t heard about CloudFlare before, our value proposition is simple: we’ll make any website twice as fast and protect it from a broad range of web threats.
Today, hundreds of thousands of websites—ranging from individual blogs to ecommerce sites to the websites of Fortune 500 companies to national governments—use CloudFlare to make their sites faster and more secure. We power more than 28 billion monthly page views—more than Amazon.com, Wikipedia, Twitter, Zynga and AOL combined—and nearly 25% of the Internet’s population regularly passes through our network.
Faster web performance
CloudFlare is designed to take a great hosting platform like 1stChoiceWebHost and make it even better.
We run 14 data centers 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 they’ve been updated. By automatically moving the static parts of your site closer to your visitors, the overall performance of your site improves significantly.
CloudFlare’s 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
- CloudFlare uses data from Project Honey Pot, third party sources and even its own community to recognize malicious threats and prevent attacks before they even reach your site.
- View which threats have been blocked in your CloudFlare Threat Control dashboard.
- CloudFlare alerts your human visitors if their computer is infected by malware or a virus. The visitor can enter your site once they fix the problem and enter a CAPTCHA.
- CloudFlare uses data from third party resources to reduce the amount of spam comments you receive
Over the course of 2011, CloudFlare identified a 700% increase in the number of distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) we track on the Internet (see the chart below). As attacks like these increase, CloudFlare is stepping up to protect sites.
CloudFlare’s security protections offer a broad range of protections 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, we’re well on our way to achieving that for sites on the CloudFlare network.
Signing up for Cloudflare Hosting is easy As A, B, C
Any website can deploy CloudFlare, regardless of your underlying platform. By integrating closely with D9 Hosting, we make the process of setting up CloudFlare “1 click easy” through your existing Hosting cPanel dashboard. Just look for the CloudFlare icon, choose the domain you want to enable, and click the orange cloud. That’s it!
