4 Reasons To Activate Cloudflare
A few years back Simple Servers announced our partnership with Cloudflare CDN when we discovered the potential to speed up our customers Magento sites, I thought it a good time to re cap on some of these benefits and remind everyone just how quick and easy it is to apply from your cPanel account.
1. Increase In Site Performance
We already use best in breed hardware and network for optimum performance so our packages are already fast but CloudFlare provides an increase in website performance through their global CDN (Content Delivery Network). When enabled, the CDN will automatically cache your static files (JavaScript, CSS, Images, etc.) on their servers located across strategic data centers around the world. When a visitor visits your website hosted with Simple Servers, CloudFlare’s Anycast technology will load those static files from a server located nearest to the visitor and your dynamic content will load from our servers. This results in faster load times due to decreased latency between server and visitor if you add Railgun on a business plan expect up to 99.6% extra compression. Through feedback from customers, we’ve seen increases of 50% or more on site performance when CloudFlare is enabled plus huge savings on bandwidth usage.
2. Security
Security at Simple Servers is top priority, we do as much as possible to keep our network, servers and customers sites secure from a server standpoint, but most website defacement’s occur due to vulnerabilities in the website code its self. Cloudflare will protect you against an array of threats: cross site scripting, SQL injection, comment spam, excessive bot crawling, email harvesters, DDoS and more. CloudFlare mitigates DDoS attacks, including those that target UDP and ICMP protocols, SYN/ACK, DNS and NTP amplification and Layer 7 attacks. This can be activated in just a few minutes from your Cloudflare portal and did you know legitimate traffic can still access your content. They have sustained attacks over 400Gbps.
3. Straight Forward To Enable @ Simple Servers
It’s so easy to install the basic Cloudflare account that there really is no need not to. You simply visit your cPanel account, locate the Cloudflare icon and follow the few steps to activate it. Should you own a cloud or dedicated server please contact support who will be more than happy to install the plugin for you.
4. There’s NO Charge
Most of our clients will find the basic plan adequate for their needs and your be glad to hear its FREE. If your not already using Cloudflare I highly recommend you do. A faster more secure site helps with ranking and customer experience. What are you waiting for?