This site has never gone down from traffic thanks to WordPress and the excellent community behind the software.  When Furious Citizen was stumbled back in 2008 I wrote up a short blog entry that detailed the effort I went through to keep things online.  It’s now 2011 and things have changed since that time.

Today there is an amazing Authoritative DNS Service that will proxy all your sites traffic through their network of servers.  This type of network is typically referred to as a Content Delivery Network (CDN) and it usually costs a great deal of money to utilize.  Cloudflare is unique because its a the first service of it’s kind to be offered for free.  Not only does this accelerate the site but it also protects the site from hackers and DDoS attacks.  It uses a real time blocklist to prevent spammers and bots from attacking the site.

This service has been powering Furious Citizen for the last six months, I haven’t had a single spam comment try to get through since then.  Cloudflare is Awesome!  It’s providing a CDN to deliver this sites content while protecting the site.

Check it out online – http://www.cloudflare.com

Posted on February 3rd, 2011 by lanec
Filed under: Industry News, Site News, Technology