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What does Cloudflare do?

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What does Cloudflare do?

The biggest internet company you've never heard of

Justin
Jul 20, 2021
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What does Cloudflare do?

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Cloudflare provides networking tools that help companies distribute their apps globally in a secure way.

  • To make sure your apps and sites are fast no matter where your users are, developers put copies of their site in data centers across the globe, called a CDN

  • Cloudflare provides a giant, super fast CDN with built in security features to prevent…

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