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Cloudflare

Let us help make your website faster, safer and more reliable 

As a Cloudflare partner we can offer the expertise to help specify and configure Cloudflare to protect your website. Let us do all the hard work whilst you concentrate on running your business.

What is Cloudflare?  

Cloudflare is a leader in cloud connectivity and cyber security that protects and makes websites more reliable

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What can Cloudflare offer? 

Security for your website

Cloudflare acts like a shield between your website and the internet by offering:

- DDoS Protection: Blocks large floods of fake traffic that try to crash your site.

- Web Application Firewall (WAF): Filters out hackers and malicious traffic that are trying to exploit

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- Bot Management: Determines whether a bot is good (like search engines) or bad (like scammers) and blocks the bad ones, and allows the good ones.

SSL/TLS Encryption: Automatically provides HTTPS for secure browsing without needing to configure a certificate yourself.

Content Delivery Network (CDN) – Speeds up websites 

Cloudflare stores a cached version of your website on servers around the world, so visitors get content from the closest server making it load faster. This also benefits by reducing the load on your main server.

Keeps your site online 

Even if your server has issues and goes offline, Cloudflare can issue cache pages keeping your site temporarily online while the issues are resolved. It can also load balance traffic between multiple servers which is great for larger sites.  

DNS services 

Cloudflare runs one of the most fastest DNS resolvers as it helps visitors find your website quickly and privately when they type in your domain name.

Optimisation tools 

Cloudflare offers a range of image and page optimization tools to make your website run faster.

Analytics and reports

Cloudflare offers a range of tools to provide reports to see how much your traffic is getting and how much is genuine or malicious. We can monitor this all for you.

"Cloudflare named a Leader in “The Forrester Wave™: Web Application Firewall Solutions, Q1 2025” report"

Why choose Owtanet as a Cloudflare partner?

We have been helping clients with Cloudflare for over 10 years, so we have a vast amount of experience.

 

We can bundle Cloudflare with other products which we offer, saving you money.

 

We understand that no two businesses are the same, and that is why we adopt a personal approach.

 

We are a Cloudflare Agency Partner and can sell and support all their products and not just their enterprise offering.

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  • Do you offer a hosted version?
    In order to ensure that your data is kept secure and never leaves your infrastructure we do not currently have a self hosted option.
  • Do you have any documentation?
    Yes, you can view our user guide and deployment guide from here
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    Yes, you can purchase puppet core licences from us. Get in touch for more information.
  • Do you offer a free trial?
    No, sorry we do not offer a free trial however there are no contracts or commitment so you are welcome to try and cancel whenever you like.
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    Whilst this is something we are considering, we currently want to focus on providing software that is not shared outside of your environment.
  • Do you have a refund policy or a free trial?
    No, we do not have a free trial or refund policy however you are free to cancel at any point at any time.
  • How much does Flotilla cost?
    For our prices please Visit Amazon Web Services Marketplace. Details can be found here.
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  • Do you have documentation available?
    Yes, we do. You can take a look at our user guide and deployment guide.

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