CloudFlare provides analysis into potential threats with its plans
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Certified Hosting announced on Wednesday that it has introduced CloudFlare to all shared hosting and reseller hosting accounts. The security and web performance service is fully integrated with its existing cPanel web hosting setup.
This announcement comes a month after SKGOLD Hosting began offering CloudFlare free of charge to its customers.
Launched in 2010, CloudFlare monitors website traffic and protects sites against a range of attacks. It also improves site performance, offers analytics and provides a range of web apps via an online marketplace for website owners to install web apps easily.
According to the press release, visitor traffic passes though one of 13 data centers before it reaches a website so it can be monitored. CloudFlare automatically checks for signs of spamming, DDoS attacks, and bot crawling. CloudFlare servers act as proxies to numerous websites so the system actively grows more intelligent over time.
“We have been in discussions with CloudFlare for a while now, and we have worked hard to bring this incredible new technology to our customers,” Kacy Carlsen, co-founder and CEO of Certified Hosting said in a statement. “With the click of a button on their existing cPanel installation, our shared hosting and reseller hosting customers can now provide a faster, more responsive service to their end-users, without worrying about downtime or threats to their security.”
Certified Hosting says that with CloudFlare customers page loading times will decrease dramatically because a mirrored version of the website can be accessed on the CloudFlare server that is geographically nearest to the user.
“CloudFlare takes security off of the list of things our users have to manage for themselves,” Carlsen said in a statement. “After selecting a security level for their website, our shared web hosting users can let CloudFlare manage their security with no further input required. Even better, in the event that a web hosting server does become overloaded with disruptive traffic, the CloudFlare system automatically calls upon a cached version of the website from one of the distributed cloud servers. Our customers can be completely assured that their website is available to end-users consistently, and is always performing at its best.”
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