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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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  2. Speed up summary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    According to the article, the speed boost comes from two things: 1) CloudFlare sniffs your content and inline replaces sections of it with equivalent content all served via the same connection... so the speedup comes from only having to use a single connection to get the entire page and 2) They are a globally distributed content system with 12 global data centers, similar to Akamai but smaller in scale, allowing content to come from a location closer to the end user.

  3. The gist of it by Anubis+IV · · Score: 5, Informative

    They offer a security product for websites, and in the process of designing it so that it didn't add much latency, they inadvertently made it into a CDN that speeds things up. There. Now we all know what the trick is.

    1. Re:The gist of it by enoz · · Score: 5, Interesting

      In a strange synergy your comment is roughly 60% the size of TFS but contains 100% more information about the topic at hand.