Cloudflare is the tool for first line defense web security in nearly every cloud computing use-case. For large, growing websites and applications Cloudflare offers fine-tuning features that scale to your needs. For small, low traffic websites Cloudflare provides maximum security while providing detailed analytics from unique visitors to AI and Googlebot requests that monitor growth. Even when using a proprietary web-model like Wix or Squarespace Cloudflare not only adds an essential layer of security and analytics but also frees clients from the propietary business model leverage. Hosting important DNS mail records with Cloudflare keeps the mail running even when web hosting funds dry up.
Before anything can touch a site with Cloudflare nameservers it will need to talk to Cloudflare first. The location and I.P. address of the websites server is a secret closely guarded by Cloudflare. Everything is proxied by their servers.
Before any person, ai agent, or crawler bot can access a site they talk with Cloudflare. The client and developers can evaluate the traffic coming to the site and filter out dangerous or unwanted traffic origins, bots or ai agents.
With the right configuration Cloudflare can block any unwanted request allowing clients to fine-tune what sees what. Alongside refining which traffic reaches what requests Cloudflare automatically identifies and blocks malicous or harmful requests.
For low target sites this helps secure against vulnerability attacks. High target sites can undergo DDOS attacks where the shear number of requests can overload or slow a servers capability. Proxying with Cloudflare allows high-target sites to verify user requests during these attacks.
Cloudflare allows for multiple accounts to have access to one domain's DNS records. Instead of giving a developer passwords give their Cloudflare account access to your Cloudflare account.
Cloudflare is free to sign up. The functionality required by regular sites and even small web applications is covered by Cloudflare's free plan. As a site or application scales certain useful features of Cloudflare can be upgraded for advanced use. There is no better place to set your DNS records to forget about until changes need to be made.
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