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Complete Guide to set-up Free CloudFlare CDN for your WordPress blog.

CloudFlare CDN

CloudFlare is a content delivery network or content distribution network which stays in between your user and your hosting provider. CloudFlare CDN protects your website, speed up, and improves the availability of your website on the internet by changing DNS (domain name system/named servers).

Before going to CloudFlare, you should aware of the terms CDN and DNS.

CDN is a globally distributed network of proxy servers deployed in multiple data centres (servers at multiple locations). The main aim of these Content delivery network (CDN) to serve to end-users with high performance and high availability of your website. Simply, it helps to distribute your website content from the data centres (servers) near to users, not from your web host servers.

DNS means domain name servers. Normally computers and machines can access your website using server IP address. It is difficult to remember for the humans. DNS are simply the alias name for your IP address. Simply these are the pointers to represent your server IP address.

Features offered by CloudFlare CDN:

Step by step procedure to set up cloudFlare CDN for Free:

1. Sign up for CloudFlare. It is free to sign up for CloudFlare account.


2. Add your website. enter your website name and click on “Begin scan”.

3. It takes 60 seconds to scan your website. No need to change anything. After scanning Click on “Continue

4. Select free website plan and click on “Continue”

5. It gives you old named servers and new named servers information as shown.

6. Open a new tab and log in to your domain name register. Go to Manage DNS server area.

7. Update the old named servers with newly named servers given by cloudFlare and click on save.

8. After updating named servers in your domain register account. Click on “continue” in the CloudFlare account. You are almost done. then your website status in under pending.

9. It will take 2-3 minutes to update. Refresh the CloudFlare page. You will notice status is active.

Pros with CloudFlare CDN:

Cons with CloudFlare CDN:

However, CloudFlare is one of the free best CDNs available to the people. It helps load website fast as well as it protects your website from malware attacks. If you need more security and super caching mechanism, and best up times you can shift free plan to pro plan to unlock pro features.

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