Why your website runs on Cloudflare
Cloudflare is one of the largest and most trusted networks on the internet. Its free plan serves a static website fast, everywhere in the world, with HTTPS included. In your own account, the website and the domain stay yours.
What Cloudflare is
Cloudflare is a large internet company. It keeps websites online and fast everywhere in the world, and it manages domains. Millions of websites use it, from small shops to large companies and governments.
Why we host websites there
- It is free. The free plan hosts a static website. You pay nothing for visitors or traffic, and you give no payment details.
- It is fast everywhere. Cloudflare has data centres in more than 300 cities. Each visitor gets the website from a place near them.
- It is safe by default. HTTPS certificates are made and renewed for you. Protection against attacks that flood a website with traffic is included.
- Domains are in the same place. Cloudflare also sells domains, at cost and without a markup, and answers for them on the internet.
What a static website is
A static website is a set of plain files: pages, styles and images. There is no server program and no database to update. That means less to break, less to attack and nothing to patch. Many Englang projects are static websites.
Why your own account
When the website is in your own Cloudflare account, the website and the domain belong to you. You see them and you control them. If you stop using Englang, you keep them.
Connect Cloudflare
- Create a free account at cloudflare.com. Use your business email.
- In Englang, open Account → Linked Accounts → Cloudflare and sign in.
- Englang asks Cloudflare for permission to work in your account, for example to publish your website. You can take this permission back at any time.
