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Cloudflare is a web performance and security platform that sits in front of a website to make it faster, more reliable and better protected. It provides DDoS protection, a global content delivery network (CDN), a web application firewall (WAF) and managed DNS. For an online casino, where downtime or a successful attack during peak play directly costs revenue and trust, Cloudflare helps keep the site available under load, absorbs malicious traffic before it reaches the platform and speeds up page delivery for players around the world.
Cloudflare is one of the most widely used web infrastructure and security providers in the world. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, it operates a global network that sits between a website's visitors and its origin servers, inspecting and accelerating traffic as it passes through.
Its core capabilities span both performance and protection. A global CDN caches and serves content from locations close to each player, reducing load times. DDoS protection absorbs and filters large-scale attacks designed to knock a site offline, while a web application firewall (WAF) blocks malicious requests such as exploit attempts and bad bots. Managed DNS provides fast, resilient domain resolution.
Because Cloudflare works at the network edge, these protections and optimisations apply to the whole site without changes to the underlying application. For operators, that means security and performance are handled as a layer in front of the platform rather than as features that must be built in.
For an online casino, availability and speed are commercial necessities, and both are frequent targets. Cloudflare helps operators in several ways:
The result is a casino that stays online when it matters most, loads quickly for players in different regions and is shielded from a broad range of common web attacks, protecting both revenue and reputation.
Cloudflare is part of SoftVault's standard platform infrastructure rather than a separate build. DDoS protection through Cloudflare is included with the platform at no additional cost, working alongside the in-house protection provided by our hosting to keep your casino protected out of the box.
Because SoftVault manages this layer at the platform level, the security and performance benefits — edge caching, attack filtering and resilient DNS — apply to your casino without configuration work on your side. You get the protection as a built-in part of the service.
More advanced or custom Cloudflare configurations can be discussed with the SoftVault team where a specific setup is required. We recommend confirming the exact scope for your deployment during onboarding.
Cloudflare is a web performance and security platform. It provides DDoS protection, a global CDN, a web application firewall and managed DNS, keeping websites fast, available and protected against a broad range of attacks.
DDoS protection through Cloudflare is included as part of SoftVault's standard platform infrastructure at no additional cost, alongside the in-house protection from our hosting. More advanced custom configurations can be scoped with the SoftVault team.
Yes. Cloudflare's global CDN caches and serves content from locations close to each player, which reduces load times and improves the experience for players in different regions.
Yes. DDoS protection is a core Cloudflare capability, absorbing and filtering large-scale attacks intended to take a site offline. On SoftVault this protection is included to help keep your casino available during peak play.
