Another week and another great new feature comes to our performance optimization plugin Hummingbird – full CloudFlare integration!
So, if you haven’t already heard of CloudFlare, go take a look .We think you’ll be really interested in their services (we use them for CampusPress, and Edublogs) and as with all our articles, that’s not an affiliate link – we genuinely do like them a lot!
Basically, through their CDN (Content Delivery Network) CloudFlare provides you with a blazing fast way to serve your website to your visitors, along with protection from their WAF (Website Application Firewall) and other assorted threats, such as DDOS attacks.
So using them on your site is a bit of a no-brainer really, especially as they have a free plan that does the job pretty well and, naturally, we wanted to be able to make sure that WPMU DEV members can enjoy the astonishingly cool speed optimization tools that Hummingbird provides along with the benefits of CloudFlare.
Oh, and we’ve also added LiteSpeed server detection, improved a better JavaScript compressor, added in a neat minification cache clearing function and made a whole bunch of general improvements to the plugin too.
But on with Cloudflare…
