Many users may have noticed that Car-Advise, not long ago, was put onto CloudFlare.com. Since then, the blog has experienced NO downtime whatsoever, and has resulted in major page load speed increases.
I personally have not had to delete one bit of spam from the blog comments or forum; CloudFlare automatically filters out spammers and attackers, so I don’t need to worry about being online for hours on end solely to delete spam. CloudFlare makes my job much easier, blocking known spammers which have been flagged on ProjectHoneyPot. 99% of spam has already been caught and flagged on ProjectHoneyPot. What does this mean? Virtually no spam will get through to the blog at all.
Another upside to CloudFlare is the ability to handle large amounts of traffic without slowing down the blog at all. In fact, page speeds have decreased from 2-3 seconds to less than a second, resulting in a major improvement in the reading experience overall.
To anyone who runs a website, I personally recommend CloudFlare. Services are free, so there is no risk or obligation to stick with the plan; however, I can guarantee anyone who tries it will be hooked. They even offer an upgrade to a ‘pro’ package which gives several other benefits, including content caching and even more filtering for attackers targeting your site.
It takes less than a few minutes to fully setup your site with CloudFlare’s services. You need not change anything host-side. Simply register an account with CloudFlare, point your domain’s nameservers to CloudFlare’s, and you’re done. You can then proceed to edit settings in CloudFlare’s dashboard.
Take a few minutes to look at what CloudFlare has to offer, and I’m sure you’ll find many benefits in their services.
