Introduction

Fundamentally, Cloudflare is a large network of servers that can improve the security, performance, and reliability of anything connected to the Internet.

Cloudflare does this by serving as a reverse proxy for your web traffic. All requests to and from your origin flow through Cloudflare and — as these requests pass through our network — we can apply various rules and optimizations to improve security, performance, and reliability.

We use Cloudflare for security and performance optimization on a number of select sites.

Clients that have a dedicated WP Engine account have their own (inaccessible) Cloudflare for free as it's part of their WP Engine plan (typically referred to as WP Engine's GES feature).

Cloudflare access is restricted to the technology director and the technology director's assistant.