Bluegrass Web Works leverages Cloudflare’s secure firewall to protect customer sites. Cloudflare’s firewall solution lets us block malicious traffic with more specific rulesets. Overall, this means we’ll be able to provide better protection for your website.

In addition to firewall protection, our Cloudflare integration also includes free DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) protection. DDoS attacks work by flooding sites with large amounts of traffic in a short period of time with the goal of crippling server resources, causing the site to crash.

DDoS attacks affect millions of sites every year and can have a huge impact on business revenues.

As part of our Cloudflare integration, Edge Caching saves your Bluegrass Web Works site/page cache to any of Cloudflare’s global network of 300+ data centers.

When site visitors load your website in their browser, cached responses will be delivered from the location closest to them. Edge Caching is included free with all Bluegrass Web Works hosting plans and doesn’t require a separate plugin.

Customers have seen Edge Caching cut the time needed to serve cached WordPress HTML by an average of more than 50%!

Edge Caching has mobile content covered as well.

Powered by Cloudflare’s global network in 300+ data centers, it is HTTP/3-enabled and provides a super-fast CDN solution for your site at no additional cost.

With Bluegrass Web Works Cloudflare integration enabled, your static assets (CSS, JS, images, fonts, etc.) are automatically served from Cloudflare data centers around the world. Best of all, we can serve assets from your primary domain, which means you won’t have to deal with complicated setups involving external CDN domains.

Enterprise-grade authoritative DNS with the fastest response time – Cloudflare DNS delivers secure and resilient DNS service with the fastest response time (11ms on average), unparalleled redundancy (locations in over 330 cities), and advanced security.

The Cloudflare global network interconnects with over 13,000 networks, ensuring users anywhere in the world can quickly load your websites and applications.

Cloudflare DNS also comes with built-in security, mitigating DDoS attacks that can degrade response times and authenticating DNS responses with DNSSEC to ensure users are not misdirected to malicious websites.

Brotli is a state-of-the-art lossless compression format that is supported by all major browsers and achieves better compression ratios than gzip. Brotli continues to rapidly gain in popularity. Whenever possible, Cloudflare uses the Google Brotli library to dynamically compress web content.

The Brotli file format includes a very large built-in static dictionary that contains various strings in multiple languages. Going even further, it also supports the option to apply multiple transformations to those words, which increases its versatility.

Thanks to our Cloudflare integration, all the Cloud sites hosted at Bluegrass Web Works have Brotli compression enabled by default.