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What is Cloudfare?

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From: harrogate3@ntlworld.com (Woody)
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by: Woody - Fri, 28 Apr 2023 06:35 UTC

I keep seeing waiting messages in the bottom left corner of a browser
screen saying something to the effect of " waiting
for.......cloudfare.....".

Could anyone explain in simple terms what Cloudfare is about please. I
am running Google Chrome under W10Pro and my ISP is VM.

TIA

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by: Tweed - Fri, 28 Apr 2023 07:18 UTC

Woody <harrogate3@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> I keep seeing waiting messages in the bottom left corner of a browser
> screen saying something to the effect of " waiting
> for.......cloudfare.....".
>
> Could anyone explain in simple terms what Cloudfare is about please. I
> am running Google Chrome under W10Pro and my ISP is VM.
>
> TIA
>

https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/learning/what-is-cloudflare/

Basically caching websites in data centres nearer to where you are. A
by-product is it allows greater defence against the bad guys who try to
bring sites down.

Subject	Author
What is Cloudfare?	Woody
Re: What is Cloudfare?	Tweed