Since someone asked me to make a topic about Cloudflare, I'll toss one down here 😉
Cloudflare is a CDN, in other words, a content distribution network. They can serve static resources like images, scripts, and style-sheets on your behalf without hitting your origin server saving you huge amounts of money and while the higher tiers which have better defences, caching, etc. cost money, the base package is free.
They can also help protect your site against people trying to overload it with traffic to take it down (in other words, a denial of service attack). It also filters out a large majority of the bots I usually encounter including spambots and vulnerability scanners.
They also have nice little things like basic analytics on the traffic going in, SSL certificates, DNS, etc. and you can use it as a firewall of sorts on higher tiers with custom rules. The higher tiers also have auto-minifiers and image thumbnailers which work auto-magically to speed up the end-user.
Cloudflare is a CDN, in other words, a content distribution network. They can serve static resources like images, scripts, and style-sheets on your behalf without hitting your origin server saving you huge amounts of money and while the higher tiers which have better defences, caching, etc. cost money, the base package is free.
They can also help protect your site against people trying to overload it with traffic to take it down (in other words, a denial of service attack). It also filters out a large majority of the bots I usually encounter including spambots and vulnerability scanners.
They also have nice little things like basic analytics on the traffic going in, SSL certificates, DNS, etc. and you can use it as a firewall of sorts on higher tiers with custom rules. The higher tiers also have auto-minifiers and image thumbnailers which work auto-magically to speed up the end-user.
