Activating CloudFlare

What's CloudFlare

CloudFlare provides content delivery network services, DDoS mitigation, Internet security and distributed domain name server services, sitting between the visitor and the Cloudflare user's hosting provider, acting as a reverse proxy for websites.

Using these features CloudFlare can bring an expressive reduction in load times and resource usage for your websites, acting as CDN.

Among the advantages of using CloudFlare is an improvment in load times of even 30%, and the hability to keep a version of your website online, even when your webserver is having trouble.

Enabling CloudFlare

Using Umbler's Control Panel, the activation of the CloudFlare's add-on is very simple. First, the domain needs to be registered and using Umbler's NS, then go to Add-ons and select CloudFlare, that's it :).

Select the desired plan and hit Enable.

Done! it may take up to 24 hours for the CloudFlare features to be activated for your website.

Using Cloudflare as an add-on will force only the traffic through WWW to be redirected to Cloudflare's services. It's important that if you wish to avail of these improvements, you force the access to your website through WWW.

Check out our CloudFlare tips.