Cloudflare operates as a content delivery network and distributed DNS (domain name server). Its services protect website owners from peak loads, comment spam attacks and DDos (distributed denial of service) attacks.
Separately from experimenting with Art x AI, trying out @Cloudflare services was heaps fun. It has everything required for a modern web app and a fantastic free tier that is enough to get started with a $0 bill.
I've used:
- Pages for Vue.js SPA
- Workers for the node.js…
@smartgoatblog@Cloudflare (This might have changed from a few years ago), but Telstra and Optus don’t peer with anyone in AU, and CloudFlare won’t pay their excessive transit charges (there’s a CF blog post about it somewhere), so Telstra / Optus customers go via Singapore / other countries