Definition of Cloudflare
Cloudflare is a CDN (Content Delivery Network) that has better features than the standard CDN offered. Cloudflare is between a domain name and a web hosting that has the ability to filter traffic and speed up website access. Cloudflare provides additional security against DDoS attacks. Cloudflare works like other CDNs by distributing web content to various data centers, when the user loads static content from the web (images, js, css, videos, etc.) the user will receive content from the closest location from the CDN, not from the web server that created it. web access is faster than the web that does not use a CDN.
Cloudflare Advantages and Benefits
Advantages and Benefits of using CloudFlare :
- Hide the real IP address of the web hosting so that hackers cannot attack the server.
- Cache sites so that resources to load sites faster and reduce server load.
- Provides protection against all DDoS attacks by changing site security security.
- If the site goes down, CloudFlare will continue to serve cached data until the site is up again.
- If the registrar does not provide the option to add DNS records, we can use nameservers
- From CloudFlare and add host DNS records there.
- CloudFlare offers a free service and allows us to add multiple domains at once.
- We can block site access from certain regions or countries, if it receives a lot of attacks from certain countries.
- Provides free SSL, which can also be used on shared hosts.
