Ever heard the name Cloudflare ?
Yes? You use it, Then this is not for you.
If not read on..
So what is Cloudflare?
Cloudflare, Inc. is a U.S. company that provides a
content delivery network, Internet security services and distributed domain name server services, sitting between the visitor and the Cloudflare user’s hosting provider, acting as a reverse proxy for websites. Its network protects, speeds up, and improves availability for a website or mobile application with a change in DNS [More]
Features On Free Account :
Global CDN
Shared SSL Certificate
Basic DDoS Protection
Rocket Loader
Reduced connections
Auto Minify JS, CSS and HTML
Easy on and off
Local storage caching
Cache header optimization
How to get these features?
It’s not a hard work, you just need to sign up at Cloudflare for a free account and you will get this all!
Whenever you want more you can easily upgrade your plan!
How to activate Shared SSL
Once done setting up nameservers see for option Crypto at top!
There scroll down, At the Origin Certificates
Click on Get A Free TLS Certificate and continue.
Once you finished this open your website at https, it will open soon, Activation takes a little time.
Website is opening at https but not loading correctly?
Again go to Crypto and scroll up to Automatic HTTPS Rewrite and turn it on.
Now you can open your website at https with green lock 😛
If you are using WordPress you can use a plugin Really Simple SSL and it will do everything for you!
You can also get a free ssl certificate for your website by Let’s Encrypt
Boost Website Performance !
Log into Cloudflare.
Next to your domain name, click the drop-down box, and click on Page Rules
To set up the first rule, type in domain.com/wp-admin/
And be sure to set Rocket Loader to Off, as it will usually break features of your site that rely on jQuery and other javascript libraries. Everything else can be left at the default values, or adjust based on your usual Cloudflare settings.
Click Add Rule.
Now, set up as the very last rule so it runs after all other rules, the rule for caching the rest of the site. In the rule pattern box, type in domain.com/ and then Custom Caching, choose Cache Everything. This sets Cloudflare to cache the HTML as well as usual static files.
Then, set the Browser Cache Expire TTL to 30 minutes. This will allow Cloudflare to refresh the HTML cache every 30 minutes if need be. Again, be sure to set Rocket Loader to Off. Click Add Rule.
That’s it! You have boosted your website.
And for security Cloudflare automatically take care of that, you don’t need to setup any thing!
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