Why your website should be on Cloudflare right now

March 18, 2026

Cloudflare offers free tools that protect your website and improve its performance in various ways.

Cloudflare Benefits

Security

Bot Management: Cloudflare protects your website from DDoS attacks and blocks known malicious bot traffic before it ever reaches your site’s origin server. This prevents your website from being overloaded with too many fake requests that can bring your website speed down significantly or in some instances, make your site completely unresponsive.

Firewall: The Cloudflare firewall protects against common attacks such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS). It also allows custom rules to block specific bots, IP addresses, or entire countries if the need arises.

DNS Protection: Cloudflare uses a proxy to prevent visitors from seeing your origin server. This adds an extra layer of protection by shielding your hosting infrastructure from direct attacks.

Speed Improvements

Content Delivery Network: Your static website files (images, fonts, stylesheets) are cached on Cloudflare’s global network of servers. This reduces load on your server and significantly improves page load times for visitors around the world.

Performance Optimizations: Cloudflare offers page and image optimization tools that compress and reduce file sizes, which help your site load faster without sacrificing quality.

Improved Uptime: If your server goes offline, Cloudflare can continue serving a cached version of your website. While this doesn’t work perfectly in every scenario, it can help keep your site accessible during short outages.

Cloudflare Negatives

There are almost no downsides to using Cloudflare, other than your website may go offline if Cloudflare does. In the 10 years we’ve been using their services, it has only ever gone down once in late 2025. Considering 20-25% of the internet uses Cloudflare as a service, your website will be far from the only one impacted should they experience similar issues in the future.

You can keep your domain with your current domain registrar (like GoDaddy or Name.com), but you will be required to change the nameservers to Cloudflare since it will take over your domain DNS. This may sound technical and complicated, but it’s actually very simple and something we offer to our hosting clients for free.

Does your website really need Cloudflare?

Setting your website on Cloudflare takes just a few minutes, it’s free and offers a lot of improvements to your website – so we highly recommend this for all websites, small or big.