INCREASE YOUR WEBSITE SPEED & SECURITY WITH CLOUDFLARE CDN
With our exclusive partnership with CloudFlare, we are able to offer the amazing Railgun technology to speed up delivery of non-cached content in addition to static content. Once your website is a part of the CloudFlare CDN, its web traffic is routed through their intelligent global network of 80+ worldwide POP’s (and growing). The delivery of your web pages will be automatically optimized so your visitors get the fastest page load times and best performance. Threats and abusive bots & crawlers will be blocked from wasting your bandwidth and server resources as well as influencing your website’s performance. The result: CloudFlare-powered websites see significant improvement in performance and decrease in spam and other attacks.
Railgun ensures that the connection between our network and the CloudFlare network is as fast as possible. Railgun achieves a 99.6% compression ratio for previously uncacheable web objects by using techniques similar to those used in the compression of high-quality video. An average website can expect a 1.43x performance increase.
When a request is made to a CloudFlare’s server for a web page that is not in cache CloudFlare makes an HTTP connection to the origin server to request the page. It’s that HTTP connection that Railgun accelerates and secures.
Experiments at CloudFlare have revealed similar change values across the web. For example, reddit.com changes by about 2.15% over five minutes and 3.16% over an hour. The New York Times home page changes by about 0.6% over five minutes and 3% over an hour. BBC News changes by about 0.4% over five minutes and 2% over an hour.
Although the dynamic web is not cacheable, it is also not changing quickly. That means that from moment to moment there’s only a small change between versions of a page. CloudFlare Railgun uses this fact to achieve very high rates of compression. This is very similar to how video compression looks for changes from frame to frame; Railgun looks for changes on a page from download to download.
CloudFlare CDN offers a broad range of protections against attacks such as DDoS, hacking or spam submitted to a blog or comment form. What is powerful about the approach is that the system gets smarter over time. CloudFlare CDN system analyzes the traffic patterns of hundreds of millions of visitors in real-time and adapts the security systems to ensure good traffic gets through and bad traffic is stopped.
The pricing for CloudFlare powered hosting plans have been kept to the lowest possible and you are never charged for bandwidth or storage, therefore saving you a fortune via reduced bandwidth costs.