Have you heard of CloudFlare? I hadn’t either until two weeks ago, but as a business blogger, CloudFlare should be among the first on the list of services to consider.  In a previous post comparing delivery speed in logistics with the page loading speed of a blog I described how I used Amazon CloudFront as a Content Delivery Network CDN to improve user experience by making my pages load faster.  CloudFlare, I dare say, works much better. In short, CloudFlare is a security gate, slash CDN, slash cache, three-in-one.  And, best of all,  it’s a free service.  But is it really that good? Over the last two weeks I put both CloudFlare and CloudFront to the test, and here is my experience with CloudFlare and what I found. You may also want to read my newest review: CloudFlare versus Incapsula

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