Cloudflare provides numerous benefits to ecommerce sites, including advanced DDOS protection and an industry-leading Web Application Firewall (WAF) that helps secure your transactions and protect customers’ private data. A key Cloudflare feature is caching, which allows content to be served closer to the end user from our global network of
Railgun Gives our Ecommerce Sites the Edge
The following is a guest blog post by Chris Holland, Director of Technology at Luxury Link. Luxury Link has been using CloudFlare’s Railgun acceleration technology since March 2013. In March 2013, we started testing Railgun, and slowly rolled it out across our three web properties. We saw immediate
It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year...For Ecommerce Sites
Forecasters have estimated that online holiday shopping will account for almost 25 percent of total ecommerce sales in 2012. That's more than $54 Billion dollars in online transactions. With so much shopping happening online, we thought we'd talk to one of our ecommerce customers to hear
Mike Auger confirms free ecommerce software - “Exciting Times at Pinnacle Cart”
Mike Auger is the President and CEO of Pinnacle Cart, the shopping cart software that has been developed from the ground up. Mike bootstrapped the company to surpass $1 Million in sales and has established partnerships with the largest providers in the industry and the biggest brands in the United
TODAY Show Traffic Spike No Problem For Khataland
Today comes every day. But promotion on the TODAY Show comes along rarely, if at all. The TODAY Show is the top morning TV show in America, with more than 5 million viewers each day. So, when the management team at Khataland.com got the call that Jill Martin was
Is Cyber Monday Real?
I wrote a post last week about Surviving Black Friday, the biggest offline shopping day of the year in the United States. However, the biggest online shopping day of the year in the United States is said to be the Monday after Thanksgiving, known as Cyber Monday. We've
A Thanksgiving Story: Surviving the Crush of Holiday Traffic
This is the story of two things that are deeply American: post-Thanksgiving shopping and scrappy entrepreneurs. An American Tradition On the fourth Thursday in November, the United States celebrates Thanksgiving. The Friday after Thanksgiving, known as Black Friday, is considered the official start of the holiday shopping season. It is
CloudFlare and E-commerce sites
We get a number of questions about using CloudFlare with e-commerce sites in customer service. CloudFlare works great at making e-commerce sites faster and protecting them against attacks. I thought I would try to address many of the key questions in a handy guide that you can use to reduce