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How CloudFlare increases speed and security of your site

CloudFlare, a web performance and security company, is excited to announce our partnership with DIGITALBERG! If you haven’t heard about CloudFlare before, our value proposition is simple: CloudFlare will make any website twice as fast and protect it from a broad range of web threats.

Cloudflare power 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 our network. We’re really glad DigitalBerg has partnered with CloudFlare.

Faster web performance

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

Cloudflare run data centers strategically located around the world. When you sign up for CloudFlare,CloudFlare begin routing your traffic to the nearest data center.

As your traffic passes through the data centers, CloudFlare intelligently determine what parts of your website are static versus dynamic. The static portions are cached on their servers for a short period of time, typically less than 2 hours before CloudFlare 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),CloudFlare 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 CloudFlare approach is that the system gets smarter the more sites that are part of the CloudFlare community. CloudFlare 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.

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 CloudFlare see and adapt to every year, CloudFlare well on our way to achieving that for sites on the CloudFlare network.

Signing up

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

We’ve kept the price as low as possible and plans offered through DigitalBerg are free. Moreover, CloudFlare never charge you for bandwidth or storage, therefore saving you tons via reduced bandwidth costs.

For site owners who would like to take advantage of CloudFlare’s advanced offerings, CloudFlare also offer a ‘Pro’ tier of service for $20/month. The ‘Pro’ tier includes all of the ‘Free’ tier’s offerings, as well as extra features like SSL, full web application firewall and faster analytics.

We’re proud that every day more than a thousand new sites, including some of the largest on the web, join the CloudFlare community. If you’re looking for a faster, safer website, you’ve got a good start with DigitalBerg, but the next step is to join the CloudFlare community.

Future of Web Hosting – DigitalBerg Upgrades

It’s that time of the decade again! It’s time for everyone to panic, freak out and throw their hands up hopelessly. So DigitalBerg has decided for some awesome updated for the customers. These upgrades includes

  1. Backup as a Service (BaaS)

This unique Data backup service or BaaS is an easy solution for a remote and safe data storage in Digital Berg cloud, which is deployed in large data centers in London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Riga.

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