I’m riding on Cloudflare

Sep 12 11 under Internet | 1 Comment | Written by:

I found out Cloudflare while reading my subscription feeds in Google Reader and later found out that the group that hacked into PSN, used Cloudflare as well to fend off attacks to the group’s site. I decided to give it a go in one of my pet project’s site, myLensDB.

The figures below should tell wonders.

Bandwidth to actual hosting server halved. Threats, although it's totally not aware of previously, seem to be controlled.

This is the new figures.

Response time halved as static content is cached and hosting all around the world at the data center nearest to the requesting user. Speed doubled.

This is the old figures.

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