Instant CloudFlare Starter [Instant]

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Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results.
Speed up your website using an array of powerful optimization tools
Effectively monitor who is visiting your website, and when
Learn how to discover and prevent security issues

Book Details

Language : English
eBook : 50 pages
Release Date : June 2013
ISBN : 1782160280
ISBN 13 : 9781782160281
Author(s) : Jeff Dickey
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Instant, Cloud, Open Source

Instant CloudFlare Starter

Instant CloudFlare Starter

So, what is CloudFlare?
Installation

Step 1 – getting CloudFlare set up
Step 2 – adding DNS information to CloudFlare
Step 3 – verifying DNS configuration
And that's it!!

Quick start – configuring CloudFlare features

Step 1 – configuring initial settings
Step 2 – switching nameservers to CloudFlare
Step 3 – configuring performance settings

Caching levels
Caching TTL
Asset minification
Rocket Loader
Website preloader

Step 4 – configuring e-mail

Sender Policy Framework (SPF) records
DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail)

Top 5 features you need to know about

Malicious traffic

Distributed denial of service
SQL injection
Cross-site scripting
Open ports
Challenge page
E-mail address obfuscation
Server side exclude
Browser integrity check
Hotlink protection

Threat control
SSL configuration

Why SSL is important
CloudFlare Flexible SSL
Configuring CloudFlare SSL

Monitoring with CloudFlare

Types of traffic
Performance
Search engines

Optional modules to enable and configure

A Better Browser
Blitz
cdnjs
Clicky
CodeGuard
Experimently
ExceptionHub
Google Analytics
Google Webmaster Tools
OpenDyslexic
Monitus and Pingdom
UserVoice
Trumpet
SnapEngage

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Articles and tutorials
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About Packt Publishing
Writing for Packt

Jeff Dickey

Jeff Dickey is a San Francisco based web/mobile engineer. He's worked with various firms and startups to build products and scale platforms. Currently he is working with Tapjoy, scaling one of the largest Rails platforms in the world. He also advises startup firms on how best to design their architecture, structure their teams, and manage their projects. He is active in the open source community and has provided contributions to various projects, including Ruby on Rails. He also writes on his blog at http://dickey.xxx.

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What you will learn from this book

Learn how to serve static assets through the speedy CloudFlare CDN
Protect your site from notorious DDOS attacks
Monitor and analyze the traffic coming to your website
Lock down your site through HTTPS
Minify your assets on the fly and preload common assets
Test the effectiveness of CloudFlare to ensure that you're getting results

In Detail

Ensuring your website is up, fast, and secure is a difficult yet crucial task. Learning how to protect and safeguard your web presence from malicious attackers whilst also making sure that it is optimized is important for any website administrator. CloudFlare helps you augment your website with additional security, as well as provide the extra bit of speed that will set you apart from the competition.

"Instant CloudFlare Starter" will show you how to leverage the power of the cloud to ensure that your website is running at its very best. It will also tell you exactly what CloudFlare is doing when you enable various features, and guide you through the entire setup and configuration process.

After learning about what CloudFlare actually is, you'll be shown how to fully optimize and secure your own website - using the latest that CloudFlare has to offer.

As well as ensuring that your own site is protected with CloudFlare, you'll learn exactly how it actually secures your website from malicious attackers. This is in addition to making sure that you can send and receive emails effectively from your own domain, as well as learning how CloudFlare can enable your site’s static assets to load quickly, with little effort on your part.

You'll be guided through the whole optimization process - with additional tips and guidance that help you avoid common mistakes and pitfalls, alongside coverage of optional modules that can additionally improve the speed of your website, add analytics, or even entirely new functionality.

With detailed explanations of things to look out for and how CloudFlare can solve your problems on your website, "CloudFlare Starter" will ultimately show you how to optimize and secure your website effectively with minimum hassle.

Approach

Get to grips with a new technology, understand what it is and what it can do for you, and then get to work with the most important features and tasks. Written as a practical guide, CloudFlare Starter will show you all you need to know in order to effectively improve your online presence in a multitude of different ways.

Who this book is for

"Instant CloudFlare Starter" is a practical yet accessible guide for website owners looking to optimize their site for optimum security and maximum performance.