If your business has a website — and it should — Cloudflare is one of the easiest wins available. It sits in front of your website and handles security, performance, and reliability. The free plan alone is worth it for most businesses.
What Cloudflare does
- CDN (Content Delivery Network) — Serves your website from servers close to your visitors, making it load faster globally
- DDoS protection — Automatically blocks attacks that try to overwhelm your server with traffic
- Bot filtering — Blocks malicious bots while allowing legitimate traffic and search engine crawlers
- SSL/HTTPS — Provides free SSL certificates and forces HTTPS automatically
- DNS management — Fast, reliable DNS with easy management
Why speed matters
Google uses page speed as a ranking factor. A faster website ranks higher in search results. Cloudflare's CDN can significantly improve load times, especially for visitors far from your server.
Is the free plan enough?
For most small and mid-size businesses, yes. The free plan includes DDoS protection, CDN, SSL, and basic bot filtering. Paid plans add more advanced features like custom firewall rules and image optimization.
At Proactify, we put all our client sites behind Cloudflare as a standard practice. It\'s one of the easiest, highest-impact infrastructure decisions you can make.
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