Cloud flare is a free service which makes your website faster and more secure.
They offer a built in content delivery network (CDN) which means your content is hosted in multiple locations across the globe.
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The only problem is, many webmasters don’t seem to understand how to setup cloudflare or a CDN service properly so they don’t use it.
Up until now, CDN services have also been expensive which has been another reason bloggers haven’t taken advantage of this technology.
Enable Cloudflare in Bluehost
Bluehost now offer an easy solution to host your content from 23 data centres with Cloudflare’s Content delivery network (CDN).
To integrate Cloudflare technology with your WordPress installation, all you need to do is create a free Cloudflare account in your Bluehost account panel.
This will give you faster page load speeds and increased security.
Your content will be hosted on servers in 23 data centre’s across the globe.
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WPEngine CDN
WPEngine also offer a built in CDN and the ability to easily host your website in multiple locations including the U.S, London and Japan.
The excellent people at WPEngine setup this service for you so all you need to do is give them the go ahead.
Bluehost & WPEngine are 2 of our 3 recommended web hosts for WordPress.
Both are officially endorsed and recommended by WordPress.org
Brad Dalton
@wpsitesdotnet
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This is really useful information and for straightforward blogging a real winner, thanks so much for all the information you share, it is so useful.
To add to that, only a cautionary tale, a friend of mine was using Dropbox to keep customer information in, this to is stored in different data centres across the globe. Data centres outside of the uk may not have the same levels of security as they do in the uk and he was prosecuted by the Information Commisioners Office when one of his accounts was hacked, so it is important if you are dealing with client information you know where the information is being held.
One cautionary note: we use JustHost for our hosting, and they also offer Cloudflare for free.
However, we also use an autoresponder (ARP) that uses emails both as vehicles to subscribe to an autoresponder, as well as to identify different message tracks. Cloudflare “hides” all emails, even in the backend, so if you go into ARP to add a message to an existing autoresponder, etc., all you see is a list of “email hidden” messages. We have dozens of autoresponder tracks, so we had to disable Cloudflare so we could figure out which message was which. There does not seem to be a setting within Cloudflare that allows you to see email address from the back end of your website. That’s bad for other reasons, too. If someone sends you a manual request to unsubscribe, you can’t even view a list of emails in your own backend. That’s a pretty serious flaw. I see the benefit to masking email addresses on the frontend, but seriously? On the backend?
Thanks for the warning. Have you notified them of this flaw?
I’m not sure about whom to notify. ARP works just fine; all autoresponders are identified with an email address. That’s just the way they set up their software. The problem is with Cloudflare. They shouldn’t be masking email addresses on the backend of your website. Think about it–you have users who are logging into your website, and they register with an email address. Cloudflare doesn’t even let you see these email addresses in your own website backend, because they are “hiding emails for your security.” I guess I could try contacting Cloudflare about the issue, but I’m not sure it’s worth the time, frankly.