How to setup a CDN of Incapsula in your domain?

In the previous post, I explained you about the difference between Incapsula and CloudFlare (Incapsulav/s CloudFlare- the best free CDN providers in the world) and I also gave a conclusion that CloudFlare is better than Incapsula.

I also wrote an article on installing CloudFlare CDN (How to install a CDN setting of CloudFlare in your domain).

But, if you got any problem in installing CloudFlare in your DNS, then you can setup a CDN of Incapsula in your domain without doing any change in your DNS.

As you know, Incapsula is one of the leading CDN providers in the world without taking a penny from your pocket.

To setup a CDN of Incapsula in your domain, you just have to follow these simple steps as given below.

Step 1: To install Incapsula CDN, first you have to make an account in Incapsula.

Step 2: After creating an account, login with your username and password again and add your website in the given box as shown in figure.

Step 3: After clicking on “Add website” button, it scans all your records to check that all your domain records work properly. After the completion of scan, click on “CONTINUE” button to proceed.

Step 4: After this, it asks you to add A record and CNAME record in your DNS. Change it and click on “I have completed the DNS changes” button to complete the setup.

Note:

• Delete the respective A record and CNAME after clicking on “I have completed the DNS changes” button to setup a CDN of Incapsula in your domain properly.
• You cannot use CloudFlare and Incapsula both in a same domain because CloudFlare protects your DNS to access Incapsula service.

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Improve your google page rank and Speed up Your Blog through best free CDN services

What is CDN and why It is Important?

CDN stands for Content Delivery Network which generally focused on various aspects to increase performance and speed of your site, plugins and your all every content on your blog page. CDN generally based on distributed computing which means having large distributed system of servers around the globe which stores a copy of your site into its servers. Instead of loading your site from one main servers it gets load from any of the nearby server of CDN.

The goal of a CDN is to serve the content to end-users with high availability and high performance that's why I prefer to use a good CDN's server. It can hold any type of data you want to provide to the end-user like videos, photos etc.

So it is very important enough to increase your site speed very much in which free CDN services will help you out. In addition, CDN's providers provide a degree of protection from variety of attacks like DoS attacks by using their large distributed servers to absorb the attack traffic.

Today CDN's are using in a very good Hybrid model of P2P technology while the most early CDNs served content use a dedicated servers owned and operated by the CDN.It is also very useful for your blog which has over thousands of monthly visitors which not only decrease your blog speed but also increase bounce rate of your site.

Importance of using a CDN

There are variety of importance of free CDN services directly and indirectly it is as follows:

1. Helps to Speed up you site by storing data in nearby CDN servers.
2. Help to minify all your large CSS, java Script file
3. Helps to improve your google website ranking.(Discussed in the end)
4. Secure your sites from various type of attacks like Dos attacks.
5. Increase security of you site as it has to double hack to reach the main server.(Dicussed in the end).

There are variety of free CDN services available which will really work for your blog to increase your site speed and performance

Now before going for a paying CDN services like Max CDN,Amazon S3, etc., you musttake a look at these free CDN as they will be more easy to setup and they are best  free CDN services.

• CloudFlare

It is one of the most popular free CDN services out here.It operates in more than 20 data centers across the world, what it basically do is that caches your static files at one of there  edges nodes or their one of the servrs, so that these files will be  stored closer to your visitor servers.It uses the Anycast technology to re-route the user to nearest center of their data center where all your site files is located and give it to the user.

It states the they have save about most of the main origin server bandwidth which cost you nothing as it is free. Their belief is that every site must be responsive and fast. You can check your speed in one of the famous speed checker gtmetrix.com and whichloadfaster.

To see how to configure your site with cloudfare go here.

• Incapsula

It is also one of the best free CDN servicse which add performance and security to your websites of all sizes.Just a simple DNS change can route traffic from globally distributed network of high powerd server of incapsula.It even also protects from most popular attacks like a DDos attacks which is not available for free. It  takes only few minutes to set up or to add up your website to the  Incapsula by making a simple change to your DNS name.

• jsDelivr

jsDelivr is also a free hosting or content distribution or delivery network (CDN) or a free CD services which lets users to host javascripts for free from anywhere around the world.To load javascript from a free CDN like jsDeliver which has many edge locations, which will drastically increase the of our site or our blog. jsDelivr supports hosting of javascripts for many other famous CMS stands for content mangement system like WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal.

Other more popular free CDN services you must look out are:

• Coral CDN
• CoBlitz
• FreeCast

Conclusion

I prefer to use CDN as they save lot of time of user to load up your sites. It also increase your load time and also help you to go up in google ranking as google also have criteria to choose most responsive site.In above I also discussed how to improve your website ranking in google.

 As it is said that google also take in consideration that sites which have very high responsive time than others. You can check various sites like shoutmeloud,com, labnol.org, techcrunch.com they all are big bloggers which have improved website ranking in google for there fast responsive in nature and less load time.

Also it will be more difficult for hacker to hack your original sit server as it is stored in CDN's servers at various locations so he has to cross check every location which takes lot of time and very hard job to do so.

So I think this post is liitle bit informative regarding how to improve website ranking in google or improve search engine ranking or how to add more security to you blog.

There are more realted post which you must see other than this.i hope you will also like them.

• CloudFlare-A Free CDN service for bloggers
  
  
• How to setup a CDN setting of CloudFlare on your domain?
  
  
• Best CDN setting of CloudFlare to get the optimum service for your blog.
  
  
• Incapsula v/s CloudFlare- the Best Free CDN providers in the world
  
  
• Protect yourself from being hacked by hackers.!!

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Incapsula v/s CloudFlare- the Best Free CDN providers in the world

Incapsula and CloudFlare are two leading Free CDN providers in the world, which provide your blog the best security and speed in free.

Every day, thousands of bloggers and developers join these CDN services to get the optimum results from their blogs and websites respectively.

But, the most important thing is that which CDN provider is better for your blogging purpose?

So, in this article, I am going to answer you about this two CDN providers features and at last, a conclusion in which I give my opinion –which is the best CDN provider for your blog.

CloudFlare

I had already written various posts on the CloudFlare CDN provider, you can refer it from the given links below.

CloudFlare - A Free CDNservice for bloggers.

How to setup a CDN setting ofCloudFlare on your domain?

Best CDN setting ofCloudFlare to get the optimum service for your blog.

Incapsula

Incapsula is one of the leading CDN service company in the world, which makes your blog safer, faster and more reliable.

CDN comparison based on features:

Location:

CloudFlare has 18 servers all over the world - 10 in US, 4 in Europe and one each in Hong Kong, Sydney, Singapore and Tokyo

 Incapsula has 10 servers all over the world – 4 in US, 4 in Europe and one each in Singapore and Tokyo.

Caching:

CloudFlare provides awesome Facilities like JavaScript, HTML, CSS minifier and Rockspace Loader, which help your site load faster.

Incapsula doesn’t provide you such facility like Rockspace Loader, but it minifies your website code as same as CloudFlare.

Bandwidth Limitations:

Incapsula provides your blog 50GB/month bandwidth only.

CloudFlare has no such criteria of Bandwidth limit.

Installation:

To apply CloudFlare on your website, you just have to change your DNS into rob.ns.cloudflare.com and bob.ns.cloudflare.com.

To apply Incapsula on your website, you just have to add a CNAME and A record in your domain CNAME and A record list.

Analytics:

In CloudFlare, it provides bot crawler, visitors and threats who visited your website after 24 hours.

In Incapsula, it provides Bot crawler and visitor stats regularly without any delay, but it doesn’t provide you the number of threats and attacks done on your site.

Conclusion

According to my experiences, I prefer CloudFlare because it has much better facility than Incapsula and speed wise, I again also prefer CloudFlare because when I am using CloudFlare, my blog speed is 2.98s whereas I get 3.95s, when I use Incapsula in my blog(GTmetrix Data).

If you have any queries related to these Free CDN providers, you can ask me by commenting below…

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Best CDN setting of CloudFlare to get the optimum service for your blog.

In the previous post (CloudFlare-AFree CDN service for bloggers) and (How to setup a CDN setting of CloudFlare onyour domain?), I explained you about the world best CDN service CloudFlare and its installation path.

In the following post, I am going to tell you about how you can get the Best CDN setting of CloudFlare, so that CloudFlare serves you the optimum service for your website.

To apply this Best CDN setting in your CloudFlare account, just follow these simple steps:-

STEP 1: First, log in CloudFlare and open your account, then go to CloudFlare setting as shown in the figure.

STEP 2: After this, a webpage appears on your screen in which there are three types of settings are given:

1.        Setting Overview
2.            Security Settings
3.            Performance settings

STEP 3: For Best CDN setting, select each type of setting and set it as given below…

(Note: This setting is for those users who are using CloudFlare as a free CDN service)

Setting Overview

Security profile                    : Custom

Performance profile             : Custom

Cache Purge                        : Use it, when you changes anything in your blog

Development mode             : Temporarily enter development mode on your blog

Automatic IPv6                  : Full

SPDY                                     : This facility is for paid users

Outbound Links                 : ON

Always Online                    : ON

IP Geolocation                   : ON

Google Analytics                : Install Google Analytics on your web pages

SSL                                   : This facility is for paid users

Security Setting

Security profile                        :   Custom

Advanced DDoS protection     : This facility is for paid users

Basic protection level               : Medium

Challenge passage TTL            : 15 minutes

Customize challenge page        : It is not an  important stuff

E-mail address obfuscation      : ON

Server side exclude (SSE)        : ON

Browser integrity check           : ON

Hotlink protection                    :  ON

Advanced security (Web Application Firewall): Paid Facility

Performance Setting

Performance profile                 : Custom

Caching level                           : Aggressive

Minimum expire TTL               : 2 hours

Auto Minify (Web optimization): Click on JS, CSS, HTML

Rocket Loader™ (Web optimization): Off

Website preloader                    : This facility is for paid users

That’s all.This is the Best CDN setting of CloudFlare for your blog. Try it to get optimum results.

If you have any queries related to this post, you can comment below and ask your queries to me…

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How to setup a CDN setting of CloudFlare on your domain?

In the previous post (CloudFlare – A Free CDN service for bloggers), I had explained you about Content Delivery Network (CDN) and key features of CloudFlare, which make this CDN service different from other CDN services.

In this post, I am telling you about how to setup a CDN setting of CloudFlare on your domain.

To setup the CloudFlare CDN setting on your domain, you just have to follow these simple steps as given below…

STEP 1: Before installing CloudFlare CDN setting, you should create an account in CloudFlare database.

STEP 2: After creating the account in CloudFlare, login and enter the URL of your website in given box as shown in the image.

STEP 3: Then click on “Add Website” button to setup the setting.

STEP 4: After that, a list of DNS records arrives in front of your screen, set up CloudFlare setting as per your convenience, then hit on                                           “I’ve added all missing records, Continue” button.

STEP 5: After this a page appears on screen with a lot of options, fill it as given below

Choose a Plan – Free- $0/month

Performance – CDN + Full Optimizations (bleeding edge speed)

Security – High

Then, press on “Continue” button.

STEP 6: After this, CloudFlare asks you to change the name server of your DNS provider. Change it.

Then, Click on “I’ve updated my nameservers,continue” button.

Congratulations! You've successfully completed the setup of your domain. In a few minutes, the CloudFlare CDN service starts on your domain.

Note:-

If you get any problem in any JavaScript file on your website, you can remove it from CloudFlare CDN setting by adding data-cfasync=“false” after each script attribute as given below.

<script data-cfasync="false" type="text/javascript" src="my.js" />

If you have any queries related to this post, you can ask me by commenting in the comment box.

About the Author Hello Friends,I am Gaurav Sharma pursuing B.tech(Computer Science) degree from VIT University(Originator and Co-Founder of ComFuge-A World of Geeks). If you like my Post you can follow me.

CloudFlare-A Free CDN service for bloggers

Do you want to speed up your blog by using Free CDN service?

Do you want to secure your blog from hackers by using Free CDN service?

If your answer is yes, then today, this post can help you to prevent your blog from loading slow and any unethical events done by a hacker.

I know that from ancient times of blogging, many bloggers are fed up by the optimisation of his blog due to slow speed.

In the starting of my blog, I also get this type of problem.

So that is why, I am going to discuss here about an awesome tool for your blog which can help you to overcome these problems in simple way.

CloudFlare-A Free CDN Service which speeds up and secures your blog in few minutes.

CloudFlare is one of the best free CDN services and DNS services around the globe which provides blogger a better environment to run his blog with fast speed and prevent from hacking without giving any money to the cloudflare provider.

In Today’s world, CDNs cover all the internet content market such as web objects, downloadable objects, applications, live streaming media, on-demand streaming media, and social networks.

How Free CDN service helps your blog to run faster?

Actually, Content Delivery Network (CDN) consists of many servers all over the globe, which takes a copy or cache of your blog and distributes it.

When a visitor tries to access your blog, it is first connected to the nearby server present in his area.

From that server, the copy or cache of your blog has been sent to your visitors, which helps to load up your blog very quickly.

It also supports your DNS to reduce the bandwidth of your blog which decreases the number of errors and 404 occurred in your blog.

What are the main features of this tool, which makes this tool much better than the other Free CDN service?

• Globally distributed CDN – CloudFlare Data servers are placed all over the world, which helps your DNS to load up your blog fast to any visitor present at any part of the world.
• Static Content Caching – Due to CloudFlare static content caching system, it helps your blog to reduce the bandwidth of your DNS server.
• Keep your blog online – Sometimes, when your blog DNS goes down, it keeps your blog online.
• Optimize your blog Content – It serves you to optimize and resize images which are present in your blog and minifies your JavaScript, CSS, HTML code as well. It also provides rocket loader service, which helps your blog JavaScript responds much faster than the last time.
• Block spammers and hackers – It also helps you to block the spammers and hackers to visit your blog and do any unethical stuff.
• Free Apps and tools – It also provides some essential tools which may help your blog to look smarter and more secure. Here I listed some tools, which are provided by Cloudflare to the users.

Google Analytics to check the total number of threats arrived at your blog.

Page Rules to stop the particular static page from Cloudflare service.

Pingdom tool to check the speed of your blog regularly and sends you an email about an error and speed of your blog.

This is all about Cloudflare (how is it better than other Free CDN service?)

In the forthcoming post, I am going to tell you – How to implement this Free CDN service in your blog.

If you have any queries related to this post, which is about Free CDN service, you can comment below and ask your queries to me. I try my level best to reply your queries as fast as I can do.

  

About the Author Hello Friends,I am Gaurav Sharma pursuing B.tech(Computer Science) degree from VIT University(Originator and Co-Founder of ComFuge-A World of Geeks). If you like my Post you can follow me.