International hosting company Storm Internet Ltd., (www.storminternet.co.uk1) have announced their partnership with Content Delivery Network (CDN) provider CloudFlare, enabling their customers to get instant integrated access to CloudFlare s performance and security services at hugely discounted prices.
By making use of CloudFlare s global CDN, along with their proprietary Railgun web optimising technology, Storm are able to provide their customers with even faster website speeds and performance, as well as help to protect their customers websites further with additional security features. Customers opting for the Pro package will receive increased protection from a range of common website threats including cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection attacks. Storm s customers will benefit from hugely discounted prices for CloudFlare s technology via this new partnership, with prices starting from just 4/month.
Storm are currently offering all of their customers a free 30 day trial so that they can see the results for themselves.
By making use of CloudFlare, Benefits include:
- Guaranteed increase in site speeds and performance On average sites load twice as fast
- Railgun web optimisation Normally only available directly from CloudFlare for $200/month
- Protect your website From SQL injection and cross0site scripting (XSS) attacks
- SSL certificate included as standard
- Website downtime protection Static content on sites remains available, even in the event of a server outage
- Mirage Image Optimiser Makes images load faster
- Threat blocking Stops threats before they can inject code or reach your website
- Broad security protection Helps to mitigate DDoS attacks, hacking and spam
- Powerful stats about your visitors
- Potentially improve Google rankings We all know Google likes sites that load quickly!
All of Storm s customers can deploy CloudFlare on their websites regardless of their underlying platform in a simple process, by simply selecting the CloudFlare tab via their existing Storm portal. In addition to the standard CloudFlare packages, Storm will also offer their CloudFlare Pro package providing additional features such as SSL, full web application firewall and faster analytics.
On average, CloudFlare customers see a 60% decrease in bandwidth usage, and a 65% in total requests to their servers. The overall effect is that CloudFlare will typically cut the load time for pages on websites by 50% resulting in higher engagement and happier visitors.
Salim Benadel, CEO and founder of Storm Internet said, Partnering with CloudFlare is a strategic move which emphasises our commitment to providing our customers with the very best possible security and website performance around.
This, backed by our outstanding managed support further strengthens our managed web hosting platform for businesses and developers worldwide. Benadel continues, Our customers expect the best products and services and prefer to deal with a single vendor where possible. We ve ran our own tests on CloudFlare and were impressed with the results, we can t wait for our customers to see it for themselves!
CloudFlare s value proposition is to make any website twice as fast and protect it from a broad range of web threats.
CloudFlare power more than 400 billion monthly page views more than Amazon, Wikipedia, Twitter, Zynga, AOL, Apple, Bing, eBay, PayPal and Instagram combined and over 1.2 billion monthly users regularly pass through their network.
References
- ^ www.storminternet.co.uk (www.storminternet.co.uk)
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