The star of the Red Cloud

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2012 Popular Index: ★★★★

With the advent of the cloud era, efficient cloud services will provide users with more innovative and faster and more secure cloud applications, then, "God Horse is Cloud" days may really be achieved.

Network hard disk, cloud albums, Evernote, Dropbox ... These cloud storage concepts of service have harvested a significant number of users in the past time, we also see that the various forms of Internet services (images, documents, video, etc.) are increasingly complex elements, each of the different elements require different levels of network quality, which requires the site to run faster, entrepreneurs see business opportunities, CloudFlare for a time the limelight is not two.

How does a small start-up with only 25 people achieve a swift leap? CloudFlare originated in an Open-source project called Honeypot. In 2004, Matthew and friend Lee Hollow Ay established a community website that allows people to track how spammers get their email addresses. 5 years later, keen m atthew that this is the time to commercialize its services, based on the judgment that people are willing to pay for the services they need. So a business plan was born, and Lee created the prototype of the product.

Now CloudFlare says its software can be installed on any site, and only need to make a little change to the DNS settings of the site, and this change will make the page load faster, because many robots and reptiles waste a lot of bandwidth and server resources, And the company's products can be accelerated to the website.

CloudFlare offers free and advanced (20 USD per month) services, the company also intends to launch a more full-featured Enterprise version of services. Of course, the most attractive part is that its core services are free. In June 2011, more than 10% of Internet users in the world run their websites through their services, according to CloudFlare.

In software design, in addition to the normal anti-virus software can automatically scan the Web page, CloudFlare use the hot social elements, the attacker's data in the user's community for automatic sharing.

"China is now our second largest source of traffic, after the United States. Matthew said, "If you are a Chinese company, you want to have access to global users, it is only using the company's services, your site will immediately accelerate, not only in China, but also in the United States, Europe, South America, Africa and other parts of the world will accelerate." ”

Reviews

Arctic Light Venture partner Jiang Haotien

Cloud Services If it's infrastructure, it's too big to be a company. But some cloud services, such as renting and booking hotels in mobile, require the data of the hotel's back-end resources, and provide that the company that provides this kind of cloud service can not only do, but must do, the key lies in the cloud of service ability.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)