Well I am not sure how this one has passed me by and how I have never heard of this service before. Launched at TechCrunch on 27th September 2010 CloudFlare works like a CDN proxy network for your site, and not only does it speed things up, it also offers you the ability to survive traffic spikes and protect your site from many types of nasty stuff. It will even enable your site to stay up, when it is down. The best bit is that this is all available for free. Let me say that again Free!
I have added one of my other sites to it as a test and noticed a good improvement in load times and will be carefully reviewing the stats over the next week or so and then taking a choice about possibly moving other sites over as well. So far though I am impressed, it is still early days though.
I suggest popping over to CloudFlare and seeing what they can do for you. If you want more features above and beyond the already great features you get for free then you can pay $20 per site per month for even faster performance, supposedly the easiest SSL ever and some other extras that are not really required.
