It’s time for South Africa to also have a better connection. In fact we are lighting up the celebratory braai! CloudFlare is now in South Africa and ready to rock your connectivity speed.
This is an important milestone for CloudFlare as it opens its 30th data centre in Johannesburg – the first of its kind in Africa but for South Africa it opens a ton of doors.
Prior to now nearly all CloudFlare traffic delivered to Africa was served from London, Amsterdam and Hong Kong data centers with round trip latency of 200-350ms. Bandwidth in the region is notoriously expensive (it would make even the Australians blush) making it prohibitive to enter into the continent. That is, before now.
The Johannesburg data center will not only make sites on CloudFlare more performance for Internet users in South Africa, but also for Internet users across all of southern Africa – and beyond. From Botswana to Kenya, users across the region will see a significant performance improvement when visiting any site or mobile app using CloudFlare.
Read the CloudFlare press release and welcome message for South Africans in English and Afrikaans. CLICK HERE
What is a CDN?
A content delivery network (CDN) is a system of distributed servers (network) that deliver webpages and other Web content to a user based on the geographic locations of the user, the origin of the webpage and a content delivery server. Before a CloudFlare server in South Africa it would have cost you up to 100 times more to have your website on a CDN network local and global.
THANK YOU CLOUDFLARE!
