{"id":347217,"date":"2019-02-24T10:26:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T04:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-256057-797351.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=347217"},"modified":"2019-02-24T11:41:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T06:11:27","slug":"cloudflare-dailyjag-startup-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/technology\/cloudflare-dailyjag-startup-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloudflare: Making The Internet Faster One Byte At A Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Cloudflare<\/a> is the savior of the Internet. More than once they have stepped up to save really important websites which were under heavy DDOS attack. We love what Cloudflare does and love their free DNS management that we believe everyone should be using.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cloudflare Inc. is a U.S. based company that provides content delivery network services, DDoS <\/strong>mitigation, Internet security, and distributed domain name server services. DailyJag has been on Cloudflare since its inception. This article is a little thanks to the awesome people at Cloudflare for helping sites like DailyJag to be more efficient at what we do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does Cloudflare actually do?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

They pretty much do everything related to networking on the Internet. They will help you speed up your website. Here is a list of services we use from Cloudflare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DNS Management<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Entire DNS records, MX records, A records etc are all managed by Cloudflare for us. It is extremely easy to onboard to their services. Cloudflare provides us ways to obfuscate our real IP address from the public which helps us in the attacks from bots and DDOS.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Caching<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Another feature we love is inbuilt Caching. Cloudflare has a huge network of servers across the world, currently in 76 countries (including 22 in mainland China) and they have really optimized their caching servers. They help us in minifying HTML, Javascript and CSS files for no additional cost at all. Cloudflare servers help us reduce the load on our main servers by serving content from their servers. We save hundreds of megabytes every month by just using their free services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Analytics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Cloudflare will provide amazing analytics on the real visitors to your site including bots, search engines, real users and everyone who visited your domain. This is very useful when you want to know where is the server bandwidth being used us<\/strong>. Here is a graph from one of our graphs on Cloudflare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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