Improved Performance (Speed)
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Increased Reliability
Intelligent Routing
Enhanced Security
Free SSL
Cost Savings
Reduced Bandwidth Costs
Cloudflare's CDN distributes website's content across its global network of servers. This means servers from the Europe are used.
Domain lookup will show Cloudflare and not the actual server details. This protects the server from malicious attacks.
Using Cloudflare caching reduces the load on the physical servers saving bandwidth. Caching static content on Cloudflare's servers reduces the load on your origin server.
Hosting websites in the cloud offers more protection, additional security and enhanced caching, so the website is faster to load.
The site is protected and monitored by the actual server and the cloud server for any issues.
The cloud offers a second layer of protection from abusive IP addresses.
The cloud is a good way of hiding the IP address of the server from malicious interest.
The cloud makes website more efficient.
We first started using cloud hosting for extra security as the cloud offers extra protection from malicious activity.
The cloud also offers high quality caching which makes websites faster.
Offers a good level of data to analyse traffic volumes and activity.