Cloudflare Proxy

Cloudflare Proxy, often referred to as "Cloudflare's WAF and DDoS Protection," is a service provided by Cloudflare that acts as a reverse proxy for your website. It helps protect your website from various online threats, enhances performance, and provides additional features.

Here are some key aspects of Cloudflare Proxy:

1. DDoS Protection: Cloudflare's global network helps mitigate Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, ensuring your website remains available even during large-scale attacks.
2. Web Application Firewall (WAF): Cloudflare's WAF filters out malicious traffic, protecting your website from common web application vulnerabilities and attacks.
3. CDN (Content Delivery Network): Cloudflare operates a large network of servers around the world. By proxying your traffic through this network, it can cache static content and distribute it from servers closer to your visitors, improving website performance.
4. SSL/TLS Encryption: Cloudflare provides free SSL/TLS certificates, enabling HTTPS on your website, which secures the connection between your server and your visitors.
5. IPv6 Compatibility: Cloudflare's proxying service is fully compatible with IPv6, ensuring your site is accessible to users on both IPv4 and IPv6 networks.
6. Load Balancing: Cloudflare offers load balancing features to distribute traffic across multiple servers, improving site reliability and performance.
7. Analytics and Insights: Cloudflare provides detailed analytics and insights about your website traffic, helping you understand your audience and identify potential issues.
8. Bot Management: It includes tools to identify and manage bot traffic, allowing you to filter out malicious bots and improve the accuracy of your analytics.
9. Page Rules: Cloudflare allows you to set up specific rules for how your website is served, enabling you to customize behavior based on URL patterns or other criteria.
10. Rate Limiting: Cloudflare offers the ability to limit the number of requests made to your server from a specific IP address, which can help protect against abuse.

By using Cloudflare Proxy, you can enhance the security, performance, and reliability of your website while also gaining access to a range of powerful features.