Thanks to the Cloudflare integration, ICBS customers get a safer firewall with DDoS protection included, Edge Caching, HTTP/3 support, wildcard SSL and more.
By placing our hosting infrastructure behind Cloudflare's network, with more than 260 data centres worldwide, every site hosted by ICBS gains extra security and performance, included in the plan and with nothing for you to configure.
ICBS uses Cloudflare's advanced firewall to keep our customers' sites safe from malicious attacks. Beyond IP-based protection, Cloudflare's firewall can block suspicious traffic through more targeted rules. That lets us offer more effective, more complete protection for your website.
Powered by Cloudflare's global network of more than 260+ data centres, ICBS CDN is HTTP/3-enabled and delivers a very fast CDN for your site at no extra cost.
With the ICBS CDN enabled, your static assets (CSS, JS, images, fonts and so on) are served automatically from Cloudflare data centres around the world. Best of all, the ICBS CDN can serve those assets from your primary domain, so you never have to deal with complicated setups involving external CDN domains.
As part of our Cloudflare integration, Edge Caching stores the cache of your ICBS site or page in one of the more than 260 data centres distributed globally across Cloudflare's network.
When visitors load your website in their browser, cached responses are served from the location closest to them. Edge Caching is included free on all ICBS plans and needs no separate plugin.
During beta testing by ICBS customers in 2022, we saw Edge Caching cut the time needed to serve cached WordPress HTML by more than 50% on average.
Edge Caching covers mobile content too. Full control happens straight from your MyIcbs dashboard.
As well as bringing significant security improvements, our Cloudflare integration also helps tune performance. By placing our hosting infrastructure behind Cloudflare, we can enable HTTP/3 protocol support on every site hosted by ICBS.
HTTP/3 is the next evolution of the HTTP protocol for transferring data over the internet, bringing several benefits over HTTP/2: exclusive support for encrypted HTTPS connections, faster SSL handshakes and 0-RTT, which makes subsequent connections quicker.
Although browser support for HTTP/3 is still early, it is already available as a developer feature in Chrome and Firefox. If your site is hosted on ICBS, you will not need to configure the server to turn HTTP/3 support on: we take care of it.
As well as advanced DDoS protection and HTTP/3 support, ICBS also provides a free wildcard SSL certificate for every website we host. That means customers can protect their sites with a secure, encrypted connection at no extra cost.
A wildcard SSL is an SSL certificate that protects every subdomain of a main domain. For instance, if your main domain is www.example.com, a wildcard SSL certificate will also protect blog.example.com, shop.example.com and every other subdomain.
Brotli is a state-of-the-art lossless compression format supported by every major browser, and it achieves better compression ratios than gzip. Brotli keeps gaining popularity quickly. Where possible, Cloudflare uses Google's Brotli library to compress web content dynamically.
The Brotli file format includes a very large built-in static dictionary containing various strings in several languages. Going further still, it also supports applying multiple transformations to those words, which adds to its versatility.
Thanks to our Cloudflare integration, every site hosted on ICBS has Brotli compression enabled by default.
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