What does Cloudflare do?

Cloudflare, Inc. is a global cloud platform company founded in 2009, headquartered in Palo Alto, California. The company specializes in internet infrastructure services that enhance website and application security, performance, and reliability. With an extensive edge network that spans over 300 cities in more than 120 countries, Cloudflare protects over 20% of the world's websites, including more than eight million websites, APIs, and applications. Cloudflare's mission is to build a better Internet by providing a comprehensive cloud platform that includes a reverse proxy, content delivery network (CDN) caching, DDoS mitigation, bot filtering, and web application firewall (WAF). Its services are designed to make the internet faster, safer, and more reliable. The company also offers developer tools, such as serverless computing at the edge and APIs for custom applications, along with network analytics and insights. Cloudflare serves businesses of all sizes globally, handling DNS for nearly 100,000 of the Alexa top 1 million sites.