I am hearing a lot about Cloud Flare lately. Can someone explain exactly what this is? Is this different than just plain ol' Cpanel? How does it make anything better? I have searched around, but keep getting basically the same answer "It's a content delivery system". But what is it replacing or making better?
Instead of loading your website from the server where your website is hosted it makes a mirror image of your website on different servers around the world making it load faster. So if someone in Australia visits the site instead of going to the website servers in say America it will load it from CloudFlare server in Australia making it load faster for them.
Cloudflare is a content delivery network that creates cache of your website on their servers and when anybody tries to browse your site, the data is transferred from CloudFlare's closest data centre instead of your hosting provider's server for faster response time and less bandwidth usage.