Keep your website highly available, secure and ultra fast with our managed Cloudflare solution.
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Elevate your technology stack.
Lower your operational costs, enable your site to perform at lightning speeds and enhance your infrastructure without changing a line of code. We'll ensure your website is among the most reliable, most scalable, most secure and fastest on the web.
A Partner You Can Trust
Fishtank Consulting is a top-rated, award-winning, Certified Cloudflare Partner. We're relentless about producing website performance and security results that exceed expectations, for less than the cost of managing them internally.
Ultra Fast Content Delivery
Cloudflare intelligently routes content requests along the fastest path while giving you precise control over your content's caching.
Fastest DNS In The World
Expect 100% uptime, advanced security and DNS resolution at the network edge in one of Cloudflare's data centres in over 200+ cities.
Intelligent DDoS Attack Protection
Cloudflare DDoS protection secures your site while ensuring legitimate traffic isn't compromised.
Protect Your Site From Bad Bots & Hackers
Cloudflare uses threat intelligence to stop bad bots that can steal information, slow your site and more.
Scalable & Integrated WAF
Protect your business-critical web apps from attacks without requiring any architecture changes.
Vancouver International Airport
Some of the results our experts achieved for North America's Best Airport:
- Sub-100ms web page load times globally
- Reduced total infrastructure spend by 50%
- Cut their CDN bill by 86%
- Reduced bandwidth expenses by 90%
- Increased TTFB by 30 times
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Cloudflare FAQ
How does Cloudflare work?
Cloudflare ensures that your website is protected and performs as fast as possible. Once your website joins the Cloudflare community, its web traffic is routed through their global network of data centers.
Your visitors will experience the fastest page load times and best performance of your website once it's optimized with Cloudflare. You will also benefit from Cloudflare as it protects your site from threats, abusive bots, and crawlers that can waste your bandwidth and server resources.
Performance
Cloudflare optimizes the delivery of website resources to your visitors with speed and performance at the forefront. Cloudflare’s network of data centers serve your website’s static resources and ask your web server for dynamic content which results in the best user experiences.
Cloudflare’s global network provides a faster route for your resource requests to reach your website visitors than if they were to request them directly from your site. Think of it like a speed mushroom in Mario Kart that get's you to the finish line faster.
Reliability
With efficiency in mind, Cloudflare uses its globally distributed Anycast network to route incoming web traffic to the nearest Cloudflare data center. This selective routing distributes the incoming traffic to multiple Cloudflare IP addresses through Cloudflare's distributed DNS. This prevents site crashes, network congestion, and DDoS attacks. This also provides another level of security because it allows your origin web server IP address to be hidden.
Security
Cloudflare stops malicious traffic before it reaches your origin web server. Cloudflare analyzes potential threats in visitor requests based on a number of characteristics:
- Visitor's IP address
- Resources requested
- Request payload and frequency
- Customer-defined firewall rules
How big is the Cloudflare network?
Cloudflare’s global cloud (Anycast) network spans over 200 cities in more than 95 countries, which allows Cloudflare to work within 100 milliseconds. It reduces latency and time to first byte by delivering content closer to visitors.
Who is using Cloudflare?
Cloudflare is trusted by over 100,000 customers, including some of the largest companies such as Facebook, Lyft, Stack, Udemy, Hubspot, Shopify and many more.
What powers Cloudflare's DNS service?
Cloudflare’s DNS service is powered by the same network of 200 data centers that powers their DDoS and CDN services. This stops DNS-related attacks and outages, and improves DNS resolution times.
How many DNS queries does Cloudflare resolve?
Cloudflare's global Anycast network is powered by their DNS service, resolving over 740 billion DNS queries everyday. Approximately 25 million Internet properties, including major enterprises, e-commerce sites and government agencies use Cloudflare DNS to make sure their website is online and always available to anyone in the world.
Does Cloudflare work with any CMS?
Cloudflare is CMS agnostic and works with any website (Sitecore, Acquia, Drupal, Wordpress, Adobe, etc.) We're happy to help you no matter what CMS you use.
What is Cloudflare's global network capacity?
Over 59 Tbps.
How will Cloudflare impact my SEO^?
Site speed and page experience are direct SEO ranking factors, with Google even indicating that it uses time to first byte to measure page speed.
Long distances from the origin and heavy pages slow pages down, and a slow page or site speed also indirectly affects other SEO and lead generation metrics, including things such as bounce rate and the fact that Google can crawl fewer pages using their crawl budget.
Using Cloudflare is the best way to improve your time to first byte and page speed and deliver rich user experiences, with Google Trends Analyst John Mueller even stating that CDNs can help websites rank well if they're configured correctly.
What is a DDoS Attack?
A DDos attack floods a website or online service with a mass amount traffic to make it unavailable. The targeted website is usually attacked from a network of computers called a BotNet.
When a website targeted by a DDoS attack, a business can lose valuable customers and loss of sales because the attack makes their site unavailable.
Is there an additional cost for DDoS protection?
No, Cloudflare's DDoS protection and global CDN is included at every service level.
What is a BotNet?
A BotNet is a network of computers used to cause a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack. BotNet computers are often used without their owners’ knowledge or permission because they are recruited from unknowingly installing malware on the machine.
Cloudflare vs Akamai
Cost
- Cloudflare: Specialized pricing with Fishtank Consulting
- Akamai: Quite expensive as its services are almost 3 times the cost of other security-related CDN services
Security Rule Propagation
- Cloudflare: Easy to make changes as you need them, when you need them
- Akamai: Large CDN structure takes more time for security rules to propagate, making it harder to adjust security responses on the fly
Set Up
- Cloudflare: Easy and simple set up
- Akamai: Complicated set up method
Documentation
- Cloudflare: Documentation is publicly available to the Cloudflare Community
- Akamai: Documentation is provided but it’s not public
Minimum Contract Length
- Cloudflare: There is no minimum contract term
- Akamai: 12 month minimum contract requirement
Bandwidth Usage
- Cloudflare: Doesn’t charge on bandwidth
- Akamai: Charges for bandwidth usage
2 Factor Authentication
- Cloudflare: Has 2 factor authentication
- Akamai: Doesn't have 2 factor authentication
SSL Encryption
- Cloudflare: Free SSL certification
- Akamai: No SSL certification
Are there any code changes required?
There are no code changes required and the configuration is very quick.
What security products does Cloudflare have?
Firewall, DDoS protection, rate limiting, bot management, and more. Our experienced team can help you select the right ones for your organization based on your goals. Contact us to learn more.
What performance products^ does Cloudflare have?
Intelligent routing, mobile & image optimization, video and cache. Our experienced team can help you select the right ones for your organization based on your goals.
What reliability products does Cloudflare have?
Load balancing, DNS and virtual backbone. Our team of experts can help you figure out which ones are right for your organization based on your goals.
How many properties rely on Cloudflare?
Over 25 million Internet properties are on the Cloudflare network.
Is there any hardware or software to install?
There is no hardware or software to install, and it’s completely transparent to your users.
Can you have both performance and security with Cloudflare?
Yes! With Cloudflare you won’t sacrifice performance for security. Cloudflare’s solutions integrate, learn and work seamlessly with other security and performance products too.
How many requests does Cloudflare serve?
Cloudflare’s network serves over 21 million HTTP requests per second, learning and getting smarter every time.
How can I get started or learn more about Cloudflare?
Contact us! We’d love to chat about how we can help you reach your website performance and reliability goals with Cloudflare.
