Hosting Marketers Partners with CloudFlare!

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Hosting Marketers is excited to announce our partnership with CloudFlare! If you haven’t heard about CloudFlare before  their value proposition is simple: It make any website twice as fast and protect it from a broad range of web threats.

Today, hundreds of thousands of websites—ranging from individual blogs to e-commerce sites to the websites of Fortune 500 companies to national governments—use CloudFlare to make their sites faster and more secure. They power more than 65 billion monthly page views—more than Amazon, Wikipedia, Twitter, Zynga, AOL, Apple, Bing, eBay, PayPal and Instagram combined—and over 25% of the Internet’s population regularly passes through our network.

Faster web performance

CloudFlare is designed to take a great hosting platform like Hosting Marketers and make it even better.

They run 26 data centers  strategically located around the world. When you sign up for CloudFlare  from your cpanel  they begin routing your traffic to the nearest data center.

As your traffic passes through the data centers, they intelligently determine what parts of your website are static versus dynamic. The static portions are cached on they’re servers for a short period of time, typically less than 2 hours before they check to see if they’ve been updated. By automatically moving the static parts of your site closer to your visitors, the overall performance of your site improves significantly.

CloudFlare’s intelligent caching system also means you save bandwidth, which means saving money, and decreases the load on your servers, which means your web application will run faster and more efficiently than ever. On average, CloudFlare customers see a 60% decrease in bandwidth usage, and a 65% in total requests to their servers. The overall effect is that CloudFlare will typically cut the load time for pages on your site by 50% which means higher engagement and happier visitors.

 Broad web security

Over the course of 2011, CloudFlare identified a 700% increase in the number of distributed denial of service attacks  (DDoS) they track on the Internet (see the chart below). As attacks like these increase, CloudFlare is stepping up to protect sites.

CloudFlare’s security protections offer a broad range of protections  against attacks such as DDoS, hacking or spam submitted to a blog or comment form. What is powerful about their approach is that the system gets smarter the more sites that are part of the CloudFlare community. They analyze the traffic patterns of hundreds of millions of visitors in real time and adapt the security systems to ensure good traffic gets through and bad traffic is stopped.

Signing up

Any website can deploy CloudFlare, regardless of your underlying platform. By integrating closely with Hosting Marketers, we make the process of setting up CloudFlare “1 click easy” through your existing Hosting Marketers customer control panel (cpanel) dashboard. Just look for the CloudFlare icon, choose the domain you want to enable, and click the orange cloud. That’s it!

Attention that video sites are not allowed according to CloudFlare TOS.

If you need help, please contact our customer support.