Cloudflare

Cloudflare is a leading CDN or content delivery network service, and a network security solution used both in private and public sectors to protect and speed up mobile applications, websites, SaaS services, APIs, and all other properties connected online. Having the ability to reduce website latency and to make apps always accessible and available, cloudflare has been helping publishers, SaaS providers, enterprise increase conversions, and e-commerce merchants, and improves the experiences of visitors.

While it accelerates mobile and web performance and keeps apps available, it makes sure that APIs, apps, and websites are protected against DDoS attacks, abusive bots, and customer data breaches. Therefore, it provides security mechanism and tools like the web application firewall, monitoring and authentication of user access to any application or domain, and the ability to block malevolent traffic via rate limiting. Cloudflare provides tools and apps that are crucial to monetize your website, gain more customers, and much more.

Benefits of Cloudflare

Fast and Global CDN: Cloudflare brings a global and fast CDN which accelerates mobile experiences and internet applications, and makes sure that apps are available. CDN or content delivery network is a network of data centers and proxy servers distributed across diverse geographic locations. This CDN comprises over one hundred data centers distributed across sixty countries. With this global infrastructure, there is reduced latency and assets get delivered close to customers geographically.

Improves experiences of visitors through load balancing: Access to APIs, apps, and websites gets affected by the performance and reliability of servers. When they are over-utilized or misconfigured, visitors will experience load times that are slow or may not access websites, APIs, or apps at all. Due to this, CloudFlare provides a component of global network infrastructure known as load balancing to prevent poor experiences of visitors because of misconfigured or unreliable servers.

Load balancing is a way of distributing traffic or workload across different servers. For example, when the server is down, visitors can access similar content delivered by the server by routing it to the backend servers. The load balancing capability of CloudFlare ensures that all visitors are routed to the servers that are close to their region and can provide a response to their requests.

Web Content Optimization: Apart from assisting users to bring content close to visitors, CloudFlare helps them in making sure that their sites and pages are efficiently and quickly optimized for whichever device the visitors are using to surf. For example, it utilizes local storage on modest mobile devices and browsers to cache needed objects to achieve website rendering. It removes unnecessary characters from Javascript, CSS, and HTML to reduce the size of the file on the source code of the website.

Enterprise-Class Web App Firewall: Cloudflare is equipped with capabilities of security which are aimed at fighting and detecting sophisticated attack types which degrade the availability and performance of apps and websites, damage internet properties, and compromise customer info. It possesses an enterprise-class web app firewall that identifies and blocks novel threats. Additionally, the web app firewall applies rules that get updated automatically when new vulnerabilities and security threats are detected.

Rate Limiting: The solution of network security protects apps, websites, and DDoS attacks with the help of its capabilities of limiting rates. Rate limiting allows users to control and block visitors that are suspicious by enabling them to define limits or thresholds for the requests from visitors, set custom responses that get triggered when the visitors hit the thresholds, and then gain insights in their traffic patterns.

Added Security to DNS: To sum it up, it uses DNSSEC protocol that adds a security layer to the DNS by making sure that visitors visiting the domain can receive info or content originating from the web server. Therefore, it guarantees traffic to correct servers without interception by attackers. Due to that, malware infections, phishing, and leakage of personal data get prevented.