SpeedySparrow

CloudFlare protects and accelerates any website online. Once your website is a part of the CloudFlare community, its web traffic is routed through our intelligent global network. We automatically optimize the delivery of your web pages so your visitors get the fastest page load times and best performance. We also block threats and limit abusive bots and crawlers from wasting your bandwidth and server resources. The result: CloudFlare-powered websites see a significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks.

CloudFlare's system gets faster and smarter as our community of users grows larger. We have designed the system to scale with our goal in mind: helping power and protect the entire Internet.

CloudFlare can be used by anyone with a website and their own domain, regardless of your choice in platform. From start to finish, setup takes most website owners less than 5 minutes. Adding your website requires only a simple change your domain's DNS settings. There is no hardware or software to install or maintain and you do not need to change any of your site's existing code. If you are ever unhappy you can turn CloudFlare off as easily as you turned it on. Our core service is free and we offer enhanced services for websites who need extra features like real time reporting or SSL.

Yes. You can definitely use CloudFlare if you have a dynamic or ecommerce website. CloudFlare does not cache HTML, we only cache static files like images, CSS or Javascript. So if your HTML content is constantly changing, CloudFlare will not affect this content.

CloudFlare is a broad security solution that is designed to provide protection from many forms of malicious activity online including: comment spam, email harvesting, SQL injection, cross-site scripting, credential hacking, web software vulnerability and DDoS (denial of service) attacks.

CloudFlare is built by the team that brought you Project Honey Pot. Project Honey Pot is best in breed at tracking spam online. CloudFlare is the next evolution that uses the data from Project Honey Pot and several additional sources to protect websites from malicious threats online. We are based in the Bay Area and have a world-class team building an effective, broad security protection system for websites, both large and small.

SpeedySparrow currently only offers CloudFlare on the FREE basis with the API to cPanel Plugin. If you do require the paid and full version to CloudFlare's caching and internal features please do contact CloudFlare direclty via CloudFlares website: www.cloudflare.com

The FREE Version of CLoudFlare offers you:
- Fast site performance
- Broad security protection
- Powerful stats about your visitors
- Peace of mind about running your
website so you can get back to what you love

The PROFESSIONAL Version of CloudFlare offers you:
- Faster subsequent page loads
- Advanced security protection
- Virtually real-time stats
- Full control and insight into what's happening on your site

Advantages of the CloudFlare system:

1) Site Performance Improvements: CloudFlare has proxy servers located throughout the world. Proxy servers are located closer to your visitors, which means they will see page load speed improvements as the cached content is delivered from the closest caching box instead of directly off our server. There is a lot of research that shows that a faster a site, the longer a visitor stays.

2) Bot and Threat Protection: CloudFlare uses data from Project Honey Pot and other third party sources, as well as the data from its community, to identify malicious threats online and stop the attacks before they even get to your site. You can see which threats are being stopped through your CloudFlare dashboard

3) Spam Comments Protection: CloudFlare leverages data from third party resources to reduce the number of spam comments on your site.

4) Alerting Visitors of Infected Computers: CloudFlare alerts human visitors that have an infected computer that they need to take action to clean up the malware or virus on their machine. The visitor can enter a CAPTCHA to gain access to your site.

5) Always Online Mode: In the event that our server is unavailable, visitors should still be able to access your site since CloudFlare serves the visitor a page from its cache.

6) Lower CPU Usage: As fewer requests hit our server, this lowers the overall CPU usage of your account.

7) New Site Stats: Cloudflare's system keeps statistics on each hit and offers special insight into search engine crawlers and threats.

1) Currently, requests must be directed to www.$domain instead of $domain (which means you may need to make some configuration changes).

2) CloudFlare may affect internal statistic programs that read directly from Apache logs. (CloudFlare will not affect web-based analytic programs that use JavaScript like Google Analytics.) While your logs will reflect fewer requests to your server and therefore lower load, the experience to your visitors should be unaffected.

3) CloudFlare caches static content from your site. While this reduces the load on your server, it means that if you make a change to an existing static file, like an image, there may be a delay before the change appears. While you are updating your site, you can put CloudFlare in Development Mode so changes appear immediately.

4) CloudFlare's basic mode cannot handle SSL certificates. If you need to use an SSL certificate, that part of your site needs to be on a subdomain that is not protected.

As part of our partnership with CloudFlare Inc - SpeedySparrow has been established with it's very own cPanel (CloudFlare Beta Plugin), this will enable our customers to test the program straight from cPanel, it's quick, easy, and does not require you to make any nameserver changes.

You can enable and disable the use of CloudFlare direcltly from the cPanel plugin as well as submit bugs to the CloudFlare team for analysis. At any stage that you encounter issues with your CloudFlare account please do contact the support team at support@cloudflare.com for further assistance.

Order SpeedySparrow services today to take advantage of the Beta Program and CloudFlare's Content Delivery Network. We promise it will not be the same, it will be much more exciting than your typical hosting account.