{"id":495,"date":"2014-07-07T15:41:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T15:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hosting-marketers.com\/news\/?p=495"},"modified":"2025-07-29T03:09:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T03:09:51","slug":"cloudflare-railgun-available-free-of-charge-for-our-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hosting-marketers.com\/news\/2014\/07\/07\/cloudflare-railgun-available-free-of-charge-for-our-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"CloudFlare Railgun available Free of Charge for our Customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-start=\"478\" data-end=\"1078\">\n<blockquote data-start=\"543\" data-end=\"1078\">\n<h2 data-start=\"545\" data-end=\"1078\"><strong data-start=\"548\" data-end=\"583\">Important Notice (2025 Update):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"545\" data-end=\"1078\">This article is from 2014 and refers to Cloudflare&#8217;s Railgun integration, which is no longer supported via cPanel or offered free to our customers.<br data-start=\"738\" data-end=\"741\" \/>For the current method of integrating Cloudflare with your website, please refer to our updated guide here:<br data-start=\"853\" data-end=\"856\" \/>&gt;&gt;&gt;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/hosting-marketers.com\/news\/2025\/07\/22\/the-complete-guide-to-cloudflare-setup-benefits-and-wordpress-integration-with-litespeed\/\">The Complete Guide to Cloudflare Setup, Benefits, and WordPress Integration<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5>CloudFlare Railgun<\/h5>\n<p>As a CloudFlare Optimized Partner, we are thrilled to offer the CloudFlare Railgun technology to all our customers for free on Video Three and above hosting plans. Railgun is CloudFlare latest performance optimization technology that gives you significant improvements in site load times. To activate Railgun\u00a0 first enable <a href=\"http:\/\/hosting-marketers.com\/news\/2014\/07\/07\/cloudflare\/\">CloudFlare<\/a> for your domain on your cPanel, then open a ticket with our <a href=\"https:\/\/hosting-marketers.com\/customers\/submitticket.php?step=2&amp;deptid=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">customer support<\/a> to enable Railgun for your site.<\/p>\n<p>Railgun ensures that the connection between our network and the CloudFlare network is as fast as possible. Railgun achieves a 99.6% compression ratio for previously uncacheable web objects by using techniques similar to those used in the compression of high-quality video. The average website can expect a 1.43x performance increase.<\/p>\n<p>When a request is made to a CloudFlare server for a web page that is not in cache CloudFlare makes an HTTP connection to the origin server to request the page. It&#8217;s that HTTP connection that Railgun accelerates and secures.<\/p>\n<h5>Even highly dynamic websites change slowly<\/h5>\n<p>Railgun works by recognizing that uncacheable web pages do not change very rapidly. For example, during an experiment, the CNN.com homepage HTML was captured once, and then again after 5 minutes and then again after one hour. The page sizes were 92,516, five minutes still 92,516 and one hour later 93,727.<\/p>\n<p>CNN sets the caching on this page to 60 seconds. After one minute, it is necessary to download the entire page again. However, looking inside the page, not much has changed. In fact, the change between versions is on the order of 100s of bytes out of almost 100k.<\/p>\n<p>Experiments at CloudFlare have revealed similar change values across the web. For example, reddit.com changes by about 2.15% over five minutes and 3.16% over an hour. The New York Times home page changes by about 0.6% over five minutes and 3% over an hour. BBC News changes by about 0.4% over five minutes and 2% over an hour.<\/p>\n<p>Although the dynamic web is not cacheable, it is also not changing quickly. That means that from moment to moment there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only a small change between versions of a page. CloudFlare Railgun uses this fact to achieve very high rates of compression. This is very similar to how video compression looks for changes from frame to frame; Railgun looks for changes on a page from download to download.<\/p>\n<h5>Railgun Technology<\/h5>\n<p>Railgun consists of two components: the sender and the listener. The sender is installed at every CloudFlare data center around the world. The listener is a software component that Hosting Marketers has installed on our network for customers.<\/p>\n<p>The sender and listener establish a permanent TCP connection that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s secured by TLS. This TCP connection is used for the Railgun protocol. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an all binary multiplexing protocol that allows multiple HTTP requests to be run simultaneously and asynchronously across the link. Or in other words, a persistent connection is opened between CloudFlare\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s network and ours and eliminates the overhead of TCP.<\/p>\n<p>We have made it simple for our customers to get the benefits of Railgun with one click. 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