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CDN = Content Delivery Network.
A large system of servers set up in many places. "The goal of a CDN is to serve content to end-users with high availability and high performance." [Wikipedia]

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CloudFlare - basics

7 Reasons why you should use CloudFlare to speed up your website http://www.cravingtech.com/7-reasons-why-you-should-use-cloudflare-to-speed-up-your-websiteblog.html "Personal review after a couple of month using CloudFlare on CravingTech.com." Mischael Aulia : January 2011
CloudFlare home https://www.cloudflare.com A very popular service that provides proxying, CDN, DNS service, security, and more. Basic plan is free and is plenty adequate for most of us. "We're essentially building an operating system for the Internet. We can modify HTML as it's flowing through the system, opening up a whole new set of services that we can offer." CloudFlare : 2012
How does CloudFlare work? https://www.quora.com/How-does-CloudFlare-work Good explanation by Matthew Prince, one of the founders of CloudFlare. Quora : 2012
Why Social Strategy Uses CloudFlare http://www.socialstrategy.co.uk/cloudflare.html "CloudFlare is our CDN (content delivery network) and website security provider. Social Strategy, and every other website we host, runs on CloudFlare for these two main reasons: ..." SocialStrategy : 2012

CloudFlare - how-tos

CloudFlare Help https://www.cloudflare.com/help Many questions and answers about using CloudFlare CloudFlare : 2012
CloudFlare recommended steps for new users https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-tips-recommended-steps-for-new-use Excellent summary for using CloudFlare; with all the important links in once place. CloudFlare : 2012
Speeding up your WordPress site with CloudFlare https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-tips-speeding-up-your-wordpress-bl CloudFlare tools, other tips. CloudFlare : August 2011
What is CloudFlare? How do i enable it on my HostGator site? https://support.hostgator.com/articles/pre-sales-questions/what-is-cloudflare Explains advantages and limitations of CloudFlare. (For signing up to CloudFlare, it's probably better to go to the CloudFlare site rather than signing up through the cPanel as explained in this page.) HostGator : 2012

WordPress with CloudFlare

CloudFlare on WordPress - forum posts https://wordpress.org/tags/cloudflare WordPress Support - tag "CloudFlare" WordPress : 2012
CloudFlare WordPress plugin - at CloudFlare https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-the-cloudflare-wordpress-plugin "What does it do? 1. Restores the original visitor IP to your WordPress logs. Before the plugin the IP addresses would reflect CloudFlare's proxy IP addresses, which confused many blog owners. 2. Helps optimize your server database." CloudFlare : 2012
CloudFlare WordPress plugin - at WordPress https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cloudflare/ "The main purpose of this plugin is to ensure you have no change to your originating IPs when using CloudFlare." Also provides optimization of your server database, and better protection from spammers CloudFlare : 2012
W3 Total Cache Setup with CloudFlare and CDN : Complete Tutorial Guide http://thecustomizewindows.com/2011/08/w3-total-cache-setup-with-cloudflare-and- cdn-complete-tutorial-guide/ How to set up and configure W3 Total Cache Plugin with CloudFlare and any type of CDN. Step-by-step, with screenshots. Abishek : august 2011
WP Super Cache advanced settings not visible when using Cloudflare https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-super-cache-advanced-settings-not-visible -when-using-cloudflare Some WordPress users having trouble with WP Super Cache plugin advanced settings not displaying when using CloudFlare. Solved by CloudFlare support on this forum. Also a beautiful and inspiring example of quality interactions between users and support. WordPress : August 2011
WP Super Cache with CloudFlare http://thecustomizewindows.com/2012/03/speed-up-wordpress-with-cloudflare-while- using-wp-super-cache/ A guide for WordPress users who are using WP Super Cache. WP Super Cache doesn't have CloudFlare built in, unlike W3 Total Cache. But not hard to set up CloudFlare in it, and i find WPSuperCache to be overall easier to use than W3 Total Cache, and just as effective. -- jw Step-by-step, with screenshots. Abishek : march 2012

CDN info

Content Delivery Network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network Explains what is a CDN, different types of CDNs, some CDN providers. Wikipedia : 2012

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