What Is Cloudflare, and How Can It Save You Server Costs?
Cloudflare, a cloud provider, can help you cut your costs significantly while increasing performance
Everything revolves around the cloud in today's world, allowing applications to do things that could not be done on the client. However, doing this incurs many costs, and if done incorrectly, can significantly slow down your applications. A lot of these problems can be solved by changing cloud providers or services. While most companies use things such as AWS (Amazon Web Services), or GCP (Google Cloud Platform), a newer competitor, Cloudflare, has managed to make many technological advantages in cost and performance. In this article, we will look at various Cloudflare services and how they compare to different cloud providers.
Hosting Services
Cloudflare CDN: Edge CDN
One of Cloudflare’s most popular services is its CDN. It allows you to put an edge CDN in front of your web server, decreasing latency for your users and allowing some optimizations that might not be enabled on your origin server (although most can be with some work). The biggest advantage of using the Cloudflare CDN over something like Amazon CloudFront is its pricing. Cloudflare’s CDN, by default, is free. Even…
