Some firewalls work at the server level. However, they are less efficient because malicious requests may have already reached the server by the time they are blocked.
Sucuri and Cloudflare are both DNS-level firewalls. They redirect website traffic through their servers and block it before it reaches your site.
What is CDN?
A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a global network of computers spread across the world.
Normally, when a user visits your website, they send their request to your hosting server. If users are in senegal telemarketing data a different geographical location, it takes longer for your website to display.
A CDN service solves this problem by sending your website's static and cached data to the user from a much closer server. This makes your website load faster for all users.
At WPBeginner, we have long used Sucuri as our firewall, security solution, and CDN for our website.
It is one of the best WordPress security plugins and it helped us protect WPBeginner from Brute Force attacks .
Cloudflare is the leader in the CDN and website security industry. Over the years, it has grown incredibly, as has its technology stack, infrastructure, and expertise.
We recently switched from Sucuri to Cloudflare CDN and here we will share the reasons behind this decision.