Internet - Saturday, March 5, 2011 3:59 - 0 Comments

CloudFlare provides free CDN type feature for websites

CloudFlare provides free CDN type feature for websites. It caches the commonly accessed data on its servers, so that it does not have to be fetched from your server. CloudFlare also adds a layer of security to your website so that any malicious attacks to your website are foiled by CloudFlare.

CDN stands for Content Delivery Network. A CDN is used to store data of a website on servers across the world. When a visitor browses to a website on their browser, the request is redirected to the nearest server to the user’s location. This has two advantages. First the commonly accessed data is cached on some other servers from where it can be quickly sent to it visitor’s machine. Secondly, the content of website is served from the data center that is closest to visitor’s location. This greatly reduces network time.

There are many popular CND service providers. This website uses MaxCDN as the CDN provider. However there aren’t any good free CDN services. This is where CloudFlare comes in. Continue…