Throughout 2015, RedyHost deployed a number of techniques and technologies to speed up websites loading for our customers, increase security and optimise customer websites even for mobile devices. As the result, our customers’ websites load 2x times* faster, save around 37%* of bandwidth, making up to 50% fewer connections for static files loading and deliver optimised images even for mobile devices.
We found that a web performance and security company CloudFlare applies similar techniques and technologies to achieve great page compression, increase loading speeds and security. CloudFlare incorporates many unique technologies to achieve even greater speed improvements plus DDoS protection. Moreover, they have FREE plans, providing some of these great benefits at no cost.
RedyHost announces partnering with CloudFlare, a web performance and security company
RedyHost now includes CloudFlare support for any type of hosting services.
If you haven’t heard about CloudFlare before, their value proposition simple: they’ll make any website twice as fast and protect it from a broad range of web threats. CloudFlare powers more than 400 billion monthly page views – more than Amazon, Wikipedia, Twitter, Zynga, AOL, Apple, Bing, eBay, PayPal and Instagram combined – and over 1.2 billion monthly users regularly pass through their network. We’re really glad to partner with CloudFlare.
Faster web performance
CloudFlare is designed to take a great hosting platform like RedyHost and make it even better.
CloudFlare runs data centers strategically located around the world. When you sign up for CloudFlare, we begin routing your traffic to the nearest data centre.
As your traffic passes through the data centres, we intelligently determine what parts of your website are static versus dynamic. The static portions are cached on CloudFlare servers for a short period of time, typically less than 2 hours before we 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 account, 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) we track on the Internet. 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 our approach is that the system gets smarter the more sites that are part of the CloudFlare community. CloudFlare analyses the traffic patterns of hundreds of millions of visitors in real time and adapts the security systems to ensure good traffic gets through and bad traffic is stopped.
In time, our goal is nothing short of making attacks against websites a relic of history. And, given our scale and the billions of different attacks we see and adapt to every year, we’re well on our way to achieving that for sites on the CloudFlare network.
Signing up
Any website can deploy CloudFlare, regardless of the underlying platform. By integrating closely with RedyHost, we make the process of setting up CloudFlare “1 click easy” through your existing cPanel account (Managed VPS customers receive hassle-free configuration and monitoring by RedyHost professionals). In cPanel, just look for the CloudFlare icon, choose the domain you want to enable, and click the orange cloud. That’s it!
* Compared to non-optimised pages.