Cloudflare – supercharge your website
“CloudFlare protects and accelerates any website online. Once your website is a part of the CloudFlare community, its web traffic is routed through our intelligent global network. We automatically optimize the delivery of your web pages so your visitors get the fastest page load times and best performance. We also block threats and limit abusive bots and crawlers from wasting your bandwidth and server resources. The result: CloudFlare-powered websites see a significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks.”
On average, a website on CloudFlare
- loads twice as fast
- uses 60% less bandwidth
- has 65% fewer requests
- is way more secure
All for free!
Too good to ignore so I set it up on here yesterday. More of an experiment than anything.
Technically, kevw.com should now load fast from anywhere in the world rather than just in the UK. I especially like the protection it offers and the claim that it will prevent known bots and crawlers from attempting comment spam, something of a nuisence with any blog.
If it proves to work without any real issues then I have a couple of other sites that will benefit from it 
Gone are the days of hosting the blog on an old PC in the cupboard at home, it’s now possible to set up a global-capable site without any costs!
The network map is impressive!
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Awesome. Let me know how it goes and I will look into it. Handy, as i have bandwidth restrictions
Will do.
It’s is kind of pointless running it on a blog with hardly any traffic but that makes it a good place to test it.
Seems to be workign good up to now, you do have to login to Cloudflare and clear the cache though if you make any changes to stylesheets or other static files, otherwise your changes won’t be seen for about 4 hours making it quite difficult to “develop” stuff live!