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Cloudflare CDN
A fast, agile, and secure global network
Cloudflare offers ultra-fast static and dynamic content delivery over our global edge network. Exercise precise control over how your content is cached, reduce bandwidth costs, and take advantage of built-in unmetered DDoS protection.
Cloudflare has built an expansive global network of data centers that cache static content closer to users, and deliver dynamic content over the fastest and most reliable private backbone links.
API First
The Cloudflare network is API-first, allowing customers to easily automate workflows with highly granular control over how content is cached and purged. With Cloudflare Workers, customers can easily customize caching based on their application needs.
Increased Savings
Caching content on the Cloudflare network reduces the need to source content from the origin, reducing costs. Additionally, shared customers of Cloudflare partners are entitled to significantly discounted cloud egress fees with the Bandwidth Alliance.
Static and Dynamic Content Delivery
Cloudflare supports millions of Internet properties, and intelligently routes content requests on its network along the fastest paths using Argo Smart Routing. Traffic can also be load balanced across multiple origins, using proximity and network latency to determine the most efficient destination for each request.
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Highly Customizable CDN
Cloudflare lets you apply advanced control over how content is cached on its network. Page Rules let you specify particular behavior for individual URLs, including what gets cached and for how long. The Cloudflare Cache API lets customers have more control over how content is cached, and improves cache hit ratios with advanced routing and URL canonicalization.
Increased bandwidth savings
Caching content on Cloudflare's network reduces the number of requests to an origin by serving static content from a Cloudflare data center, minimizing bandwidth consumption.
Cloudflare offers predictable bandwidth pricing, with no surge pricing when you get attacked. Customers hosting their websites with Cloudflare partners can reduce or completely eliminate data egress costs from their hosting provider to Cloudflare when dynamic content is requested.
Granular visibility into your cache
Get actionable insights into the caching of your website for a better cache-hit ratio and further drive down your bandwidth costs.
• See exactly what resources on your website are cached and what aren’t. Make configuration changes to improve cache-hit ratios.
• Get dashboard views of your website performance based on the Requests served and data transfer to optimize for performance as well as cost-savings.
• Filter by hostnames, or see a list of top URLs that missed cache using intuitive drill-down graphs right from the dashboard.
The right CDN for video
Cloudflare offers a rich ecosystem of performance and security services tuned specifically for video. Cloudflare’s global anycast network ensures fast video delivery, with shorter video startup times and reduced buffering, no matter where your visitors are located. Features such as Concurrent Streaming Acceleration further optimize delivery of live video, even to mulitple simultaneous requestors at scale with minimal end-to-end latency.
Support for HTTP/3
HTTP/3 is the latest generation of the protocol that powers the web. Instead of using TCP as the transport layer, HTTP/3 uses QUIC, a new Internet transport protocol which is encrypted by default and helps accelerate delivery of traffic.
Cloudflare's support for HTTP/3 enables faster, more reliable, and more secure connections to websites and APIs.
Support for BYOIP
BYOIP (Bring your own IPs) feature allows customers to have their IPs announced by Cloudflare and attached to the Cloudflare services of their choice. This way the internet sees the customer IP addresses and not Cloudflares
• API to toggle on/off an announcement
• Network analytics on IPs
• Ability to map DNS responses to individual domains
• Allows for rotation of IPs as they get blocked
China Network CDN
Alongside JD Cloud, Cloudflare has launched a network that will grow to 150 mainland China locations by the end of 2023. Not only does this network reduce latency for customers, but it also provides them with a number of built-in application security services.
"We are caching 80% of our traffic on Cloudflare, and saw page load times for both desktop and mobile clients decrease on average by 50% - which was amazing!"
David O'Brien
Digital and eCommerce Manager, YPO
"Our previous provider seems obsolete compared to Cloudflare. Deploying comparable features like Argo Smart Routing and tiered caching was significantly easier to enable, requiring zero changes to our infrastructure."
Austin Davies
Site Reliability Engineer at AO.com
"With Cloudflare’s CDN the load time of our images improved by 2-3x and on top of that we’re saving over 50% on our monthly bandwidth usage."
Mikayel Vardanyan, CTO
PicsArt
Key Features
China support
API programmability
Cache tags
Cache control header extensions
Concurrent Streaming Acceleration
Web cache deception protection
ETag header support
Cross origin resource sharing (CORS) support
Customizable cache expiration periods (TTL)
Intelligent traffic routing to avoid congestion and latency
Support for MPEG-DASH, HLS, and CMAF video files
Fast cache purge
Cloudflare CDN recognized as a Gartner Peer Insights "Customer's Choice" in 2020 for Global CDN
Learn what enterprise tech professionals love about Cloudflare's global network.
* Gartner Peer Insights reviews constitute the subjective opinions of individual end users based on their own experiences and do not represent the views of Gartner or its affiliates.
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