Year-end inventory of cloud services: CloudFlare fame – cloud services, CloudFlare,
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With the cloud era, and efficient for users of cloud services will provide a richer life, new cloud applications faster and more secure, in time, \"God horses are clouds,\" the day may really want to achieve.
Network drives, cloud album, Evernote, Dropbox ... ... The concept of cloud storage services have been harvested in the past a considerable amount of time users, we can see, the various forms of Internet services (pictures, documents, video, etc.) elements becomes more complex, each of the different elements require different levels of network quality, which requires sites to run faster, have entrepreneurs see opportunity, CloudFlare limelight for a time without the two.
Only 25 individuals of a small start-up companies on how to achieve fame? CloudFlare born out of an open-source project called HoneyPot. In 2004, Matthew and friend Lee Hollow ay allows people to establish a track on how spammers get e-mail address community site. Five years later, Matthew keen that this can be commercialized to improve service time, based on the needs of people are willing to pay for services for their own judgments. So a business plan is born, Lee has thus created a product prototype.
Now CloudFlare says its software can be installed to any web site, and only the DNS settings on the site need to make some small changes, while this change will make the page load faster, because there will be a lot of the original machine reptiles and wasted a lot of bandwidth and server resources, and the company's products can be accelerated to the site.
CloudFlare offers free and premium ($ 20 per month) two services, the company also plans to launch a more feature-full of the Enterprise Edition service. Of course, the most attractive place in its core service is free. According to CloudFlare data released in June 2011, the world has more than 10% of Internet users through its service running the site.
In software design, in addition to the general anti-virus software can automatically scan the pages as outside, CloudFlare use of the hot social elements, the attacker's data automatically within the community of users to share.
\"Now China is already our second largest source of traffic, after the United States. \"Matthew said,\" If you are a Chinese company, hoping to reach customers around the world, then simply use our services, your site will be immediately accelerated, not only in China, but also in the United States, Europe, South America , Africa and other parts of the world will be accelerated. \"
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Northern Light Venture Partners Jiang Haotian:
Cloud service infrastructure if this is too ambitious, not a company can be made. But some cloud services, such as car rental and set in motion Hotel, background resource data needs of the hotel and provide them to provide this type of cloud service company not only can do and must do, the key is cloud-based service capacity. (Man / Southern Metropolis Daily)
