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Security Service Accidentally Makes Websites 60% Faster

Posted by Soulskill on from the missing-the-punchline dept.

EastDakota writes "CloudFlare was originally conceived by the team behind the open source community. Project Honey Pot as an easy way to protect any website from hackers and spammers. The concern from the beginning was that it would add latency. It was quite a surprise when the free service launched 8 months ago and ended up speeding up websites by 60%."

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  1. slashvertisement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The article about the anti-spam article looks itself to be astroturf spam.

    1. Re:slashvertisement by Nursie · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Badly written too. FTFA -

      "In 2007 the Department of Homeland Security reached out to Prince, essentially asking him if he had any idea what technology that he owned."

      WFT?

  2. Slashdot corporate shill by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Could you at least try and hide the money you take to post ads as articles?