{"id":25959,"date":"2020-12-21T03:05:36","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T19:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.mwwsb.com.my\/pjci\/?post_type=kb&#038;p=25959"},"modified":"2023-01-18T14:43:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T06:43:48","slug":"all-about-cloudflare","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/www.casbay.com\/guide\/kb\/all-about-cloudflare","title":{"rendered":"All About CloudFlare"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"25959\" class=\"elementor elementor-25959\" data-elementor-post-type=\"kb\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6bdd2ec elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6bdd2ec\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c1f18d5\" data-id=\"c1f18d5\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0a02234 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"0a02234\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">All About CloudFlare\n<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fd1f47d elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"fd1f47d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"558\" height=\"373\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casbay.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Cloudflare-e1608529867303.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-32397\" alt=\"All about CloudFlare\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.casbay.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Cloudflare-e1608529867303.png 558w, https:\/\/www.casbay.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Cloudflare-e1608529867303-300x201.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a5a4905 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"a5a4905\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-medium\">What is CloudFlare? Who can use CloudFlare?<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5781c12 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5781c12\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudflare.com\/en-gb\/\" rel=\"noopener\">CloudFlare<\/a> is a FREE system that improves the website\u2019s performance and security where it acts as a proxy between your visitors and servers.<br \/>Furthermore, cloudFlare is not appropriate for websites that stream video directly. However, if you use YouTube or Vimeo to embed videos, then CloudFlare is appropriate.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-eefbda9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"eefbda9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-medium\">How much does it cost?\u00a0<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b72422b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b72422b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>CloudFlare basic service is free. For advanced caching, security and customization options, please refer to CloudFlare\u2019s.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9ed4fea elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"9ed4fea\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-medium\">What are the advantages and limitations of using CloudFlare?<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e48f11a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e48f11a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>CloudFlare is a broad security solution that provides protection from many forms of malicious activity online including:<\/p><p>\u2013 comment spam,<\/p><p>\u2013 email harvesting,<\/p><p>\u2013 SQL injection,<\/p><p>\u2013 cross-site scripting,<\/p><p>\u2013 credential hacking,<\/p><p>\u2013 web software vulnerability.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3aebf77 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"3aebf77\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-medium\">Advantages<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e943b0d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e943b0d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul><li>Site Performance Improvement<br \/><em>CloudFlare has proxy servers located throughout the world. Proxy servers are located closer to your visitors which mean they will likely 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.<\/em><\/li><li>Bot and Threat Protection<br \/><em>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.<\/em>\u00a0You can see which threats are being stopped through your CloudFlare dashboard here\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.casbay.com\/guide\/kb\/all-about-cloudflare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"><em>https:\/\/www.casbay.com\/guide\/kb\/all-about-cloudflare<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/li><li>Spam Comments Protection<br \/><em>CloudFlare leverages data from third party resources to reduce the number of spam comments on your site.<\/em><\/li><li>Alerting Visitors of Infected Computers<br \/><em>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.<\/em><\/li><li>Lower CPU Usage<br \/><em>As fewer requests hit our server, this lowers the overall CPU usage of your account.<\/em><\/li><li>New Site Stats<br \/><em>You have good tools to evaluate human traffic coming to your site, but no insight into search engine crawlers and threats.<\/em>\u00a0With CloudFlare, now you do.<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a7278d3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"a7278d3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-medium\">Limitations<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f5a1fc1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f5a1fc1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul><li>Currently, requests must be directed to www.$domain instead of $domain (which means you may need to make some configuration changes).<\/li><li>However, 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.<\/li><li>In other words, 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.<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-efe351f elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"efe351f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-medium\">Do I need to change nameserver  to use CloudFlare?<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5c436bf elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5c436bf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>No, you are not required to change nameservers as CloudFlare has been setup in your cPanel.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All About CloudFlare What is CloudFlare? 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