BlueRay Concepts offers the Cloudflare CDN as part of all its packages. What is it? Why should you use it? How do you use it? Well lets dig into that.
CDN – A content delivery network (CDN) is a system of distributed servers (network) that deliver webpages and other Web content to a user based on the geographic locations of the user, the origin of the webpage and a content delivery server.
How does a CDN help you? Well with your content distributed to multiple servers world wide, if one server goes down your content is still available.
- A CDN helps speed up your website by serving your content from multiple locations
- A CDN helps make your website crash resistant. With your content served from multiple servers, the visitor load is spread out
- Google has clearly stated that faster sites tend to rank higher in Search Engines.
You can setup your Cloudflare CDN for free by following our knowledge base article here
For site owners who would like to take advantage of CloudFlare’s advanced offerings, they also offer a ‘Pro’ tier of service for $20/month. The ‘Pro’ tier includes all of the ‘Free’ tier’s offerings, as well as extra features like SSL, full web application firewall and faster analytics.