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CloudFlare Breaks the Speed Limit With Railgun Web Optimization Technology
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Feb 26, 2013 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
CloudFlare, the web performance and security company, today
announced that the company's Railgun web optimization protocol is now
accelerating web performance for hundreds of customers, and has been
adopted by a majority of the world's leading hosting providers.
"At CloudFlare, our mission is to build a faster, safer web,"
explained Matthew Prince, Co-founder and CEO of CloudFlare. "To
further improve the performance of an increasingly dynamic,
API-driven Internet, we needed to reinvent some of its 23-year-old
protocols. Railgun goes beyond what traditional performance boosting
technology has provided, making even highly dynamic content load
faster than ever before."
CloudFlare's Railgun protocol is based on delta compression
technology. Rather than caching at the object level, as is standard
with traditional web protocols and last-generation content delivery
networks, Railgun allows content caching down to the individual bytes
within an object. This allows even highly dynamic content to be
accelerated for the first time. Based on tests of hundreds of sites
and mobile apps, Railgun's byte-level caching optimizes dynamic
content to achieve an average 143 percent improvement in load times,
a 50 percent reduction in bandwidth usage and a 90 percent decrease
in the time to first byte (TTFB).
The majority of the world's largest hosting providers and platforms
are now CloudFlare Optimized Hosting Partners, who have adopted the
Railgun protocol. As of today, 040hosting, A2 Hosting, Arvixe,
Bluehost, ByetHost, CoreCommerce, DreamHost, ELServer, FastDomain,
GreenGeeks, HostPapa, HostMonster, Just Host, InterServer, MapleTime,
(mt) Media Temple, MDDHosting, NameCheap, PacificHost, PRO ISP,
SiteGround, Sliqua Enterprise Hosting, Softcloud Hosting, SparkRed,
VentraIP, VEXXHOST, WebHostingBuzz, WebHostingPad, x10Hosting and
Zuver offer Railgun to customers through a single click and without
any software installation or code changes. In addition, CloudFlare
today released packages that make it easy for Rackspace and Amazon
Web Services customers to install Railgun.
"While Railgun's performance gains are ground-breaking, we knew that
would mean nothing if the technology never made it out of the lab,"
said Michelle Zatlyn, Co-founder and Head of User
Experience at
CloudFlare. "CloudFlare's rapidly growing community of Optimized
Hosting Partners means there is a new standard for speed and
performance online, and it has never been easier for businesses to
delight their customers and recognize the full potential of their
sites and apps."
End Users of CloudFlare's Railgun are raving about the speed
improvement, bandwidth savings, and ease of use:
"Speed is an important feature at Imgur, and the entire site is
designed to run as fast as possible," said Alan Schaaf, CEO of the
high traffic image sharing site, Imgur. "We're really excited to use
Railgun to take it even further. Not only has it helped speed up the
delivery of our HTML content so far, it's also saving us 50 percent
on our HTML bandwidth."
"thredUP.com serves parents, the busiest of all consumers. We're
competing against epic tantrums for mom's time, so our children's
clothing shopping experience needs to be fast and flawless," said
Chris Homer, CTO of thredUP. "Getting Railgun enabled was incredibly
easy and has allowed us to deliver the fastest possible web
experience for our customers, so mom can get back to what matters."
"I feel CloudFlare is the most relevant thing to happen to the
Internet since Google," said Chris Holland, Director of Technology at
Luxury Link. "Using Railgun, the HTML for our home page loads 40
percent faster from the East Coast in the United States. Measurements
we've run from London showed a 2x speedup, which will be invaluable
in positioning ourselves as a global player in the travel industry."
CloudFlare's Optimized Hosting partners see Railgun as a significant
advancement in Web technology:
"Bluehost is excited to offer CloudFlare's amazing Railgun technology
to our customers," said Dan Handy, CEO of Bluehost. "We love that our
customers can have performance gains above and beyond an already
great CloudFlare offering. The improvement in speed between Railgun
and a standard website is surprisingly large in our testing."
"Installing Railgun was fast and easy," said Jonathan LaCour, Vice
President of Product and Development at DreamHost. "We've connected
our data centers directly to the CloudFlare network, turbocharging
customer sites that were previously difficult to accelerate.
CloudFlare's Railgun is a real performance breakthrough."
"(mt) Media Temple strives to offer unique, compelling, and
innovative services to our customers. Our partners at CloudFlare have
always helped us exceed our customer's high expectations in the past,
but this time they have raised the bar with the release of Railgun,"
said Dante Baker, Shared Hosting Product Manager of Media Temple.
"We're very excited to be one of the first digital service companies
providing a solution that was previously thought to not be feasible
in the Web Hosting industry. We know it will be a great tool in
helping clients achieve improved performance results, while still
maintaining the levels of security that CloudFlare has become known
for."
About CloudFlare
CloudFlare, Inc. (www.cloudflare.com /
@cloudflare) makes sites twice as fast, protects them from attacks,
ensures they are always online, and makes it simple to add web apps
with a single click. CloudFlare supercharges websites regardless of
size or platform with no need to add hardware, install software, or
change a line of code. The CloudFlare community gets stronger as it
grows; every new site makes the network smarter. Thanks to our
awesome sauce technology, every month more than 1 billion people
experience a faster, safer, better Internet. CloudFlare is recognized
by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer, was named the
2011 & 2012 Most Innovative Network & Internet Technology Company of
the Year by the Wall Street Journal, and ranked among the World's
Most Innovative Companies of 2012 by Fast Company. CloudFlare is
based in San Francisco, California, USA.
For more information, contact:
Kristin Tarr
Communications Specialist
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SOURCE: CloudFlare
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