The number of cyber attacks drastically increases year over year which puts all online businesses at risk. 101domain’s Secure Web Accelerator powered by Cloudflare is an easy security and performance win. Learn more about all of the powerful features you can get access to when you add Cloudflare DNS to your domains with Secure Web Accelerator.
What is Secure Web Accelerator powered by Cloudflare?
Getting popular online is great for business but can your website handle spikes in traffic? Too many requests can overload a server and make your website unavailable to customers. This is where Cloudflare steps in.
Cloudflare is one of the world’s largest networks of servers across the globe. 101domain’s Secure Web Accelerator powered by Cloudflare protects from DDoS attacks, by storing cached copies of your site on servers around the world.
This makes it more difficult for surges of requests to overwhelm any single server.
The Cloudflare global network also speeds up web page load time. Without Cloudflare, a users’s request may be fulfilled by a server on the opposite side of the globe. With Cloudflare, your website content is prepared by the server closest to the user. This process dramatically increases website speed.
What Do You Get With All Secure Web Accelerator Plans?
The introductory Secure Web Accelerator plan gives you the perks of joining the Cloudflare global network. Perks such as:
DDoS attack mitigation
A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack seeks to make an online service, like a website, unavailable to its end users. For all plan types, Cloudflare’s network automatically monitors and mitigates large DDoS attacks. Cloudflare’s content delivery network also protects your website against small DDoS attacks.
The Cloudflare Global Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Cloudflare’s CDN is a geographically distributed group of servers that ensure fast delivery of Internet content. Caching static resources at Cloudflare reduces your server load and bandwidth. Cloudflare caches static content depending on:
- where your visitors come from,
- which Cloudflare data center your visitors reach, and
- how often visitors request a resource at the specific data center.
Support from dedicated engineers
When you add Secure Web Accelerator to your domains you get access to 101domain hosting engineers by email, support ticket, chat, and phone.
Secure Web Accelerator Plus vs. Premium
You can get even more out of Secure Web Accelerator with premium features that are only available in the Cloudflare dashboard with Secure Web Accelerator Plus and Premium plans.
Secure Web Accelerator Plus
Enhanced security with Web Application Firewall (WAF)
- The Cloudflare WAF identifies and removes suspicious activity. Suspicious requests can be blocked, challenged, or logged while legitimate requests are routed to your website.
- You can turn on Cloudflare Managed Ruleset with a click of a button in your Cloudflare dashboard.
Lossless image optimization
- Polish applies “lossless” or optional “lossy” image optimization to reduce your image sizes by 35% on average.
Automatic mobile optimization
- Mirage by Cloudflare automatically optimizes images. It detects the browser type of a visitor and optimizes performance for the particular device, improving the performance of images on a mobile connection.
Cache Analytics
- The Cloudflare dashboard allows deeper exploration into what Cloudflare’s caching and content delivery services are doing for your website.
Secure Web Accelerator Premium
Enhanced security with Web Application Firewall (WAF)
- The Cloudflare WAF identifies and removes suspicious activity. Suspicious requests can be blocked, challenged, or logged while legitimate requests are routed to your website.
- You can turn on Cloudflare Managed Ruleset with a click of a button in your Cloudflare dashboard.
Lossless image optimization
- Polish applies “lossless” or optional “lossy” image optimization to reduce your image sizes by 35% on average.
Automatic mobile optimization
- Mirage by Cloudflare automatically optimizes images. It detects the browser type of a visitor and optimizes performance for the particular device, improving the performance of images on a mobile connection.
Cache Analytics
- The Cloudflare dashboard allows deeper exploration into what Cloudflare’s caching and content delivery services are doing for your website.
100% uptime SLA
- This package includes a 100% uptime Service-Level Agreement (SLA) to ensure your website is always online and available.
CNAME set-up compatibility
- A CNAME setup allows you to maintainauthoritative DNS outside of Cloudflare. It allows individual subdomains to benefit from Cloudflare’s services without requiring a domain’s registration to point to Cloudflare’s nameservers for DNS resolution.
- Ex. foo.example.com -> foo.example.com.cdn.cloudflare.net
- With a CNAME setup, Cloudflare will drop the cdn.cloudflare.com
- foo.exmaple.com -> 203.0.113.1
Easy PCI compliance
- Bring your business into compliance with the latest PCI DSS 3.2 standards by enabling Cloudflare’s web application firewall (WAF) and Modern TLS Only mode.
Use your own SSL certificate
- If you do not currently use SSL, Cloudflare can provide you with SSL capabilities — no configuration required. If you do have your own dedicated SSL certificate, you can upload it to the Cloudflare network in your Cloudflare dashboard — supports EV certificates.
Compare all the features between the plans to find the plan that’s fit for you.
Which Plan Is Right For You?
The best part about all of the Secure Web Accelerator plans is that setup is simple. 101domain will automatically add your domain to the Cloudflare network so you can start enjoying the benefits right away. With Secure Web Accelerator Plus and Premium you can leverage many features and optimizations offered in the Cloudflare dashboard with the flip of a switch. Secure Web Accelerator Premium is ideal for banking, fiance, aviation, e-commerce, and similar enterprises with ~15% of the Fortune 1000 using the Cloudflare global cloud platform.