What I understand so far:

• You keep your current web hosting, but you change the DNS servers for your site from the DNS servers of your current hosting to CloudFlare's DNS servers.
• CloudFlare serves your website's resources from multiple data centers around the world.

Now, I would like to know the technical details of this mechanism. Here are some of the questions I have:

1. Does CloudFlare act as a cache proxy? Say I have a bunch of images on the pages of my site. Does CloudFlare cache all those images on each of their data centers and then serve them from those data centers?
2. Which site resources are affected? Only static ones? What about the web pages themselves (the HTML documents)? What if the pages are dynamically generated by my server? How does CloudFlare make sure to always serve the most up-to-date version of the page?
3. What about POST requests to my site (e.g. a visitor uploading data via Ajax which is then stored in the database)? This stuff has to be executed on my server. So, CloudFlare doesn't (and cannot) increase the performance of this process, right? So, CloudFlare just relays the Ajax request to the original web host?

What I understand so far:

• You keep your current web hosting, but you change the DNS servers for your site from the DNS servers of your current hosting to CloudFlare's DNS servers.
• CloudFlare serves your website's resources from multiple data centers around the world.

Now, I would like to know the technical details of this mechanism. Here are some of the questions I have:

1. Does CloudFlare act as a cache proxy? Say I have a bunch of images on the pages of my site. Does CloudFlare cache all those images on each of their data centers and then serve them from those data centers?

2. Which site resources are affected? Only static ones? What about the web pages themselves (the HTML documents)? What if the pages are dynamically generated by my server? How does CloudFlare make sure to always serve the most up-to-date version of the page?

3. What about POST requests to my site (e.g. a visitor uploading data via Ajax which is then stored in the database)? This stuff has to be executed on my server. So, CloudFlare doesn't (and cannot) increase the performance of this process, right? So, CloudFlare just relays the Ajax request to the original web host?

What I understand so far:

• You keep your current web hosting, but you change the DNS servers for your site from the DNS servers of your current hosting to CloudFlare's DNS servers.
• CloudFlare serves your website's resources from multiple data centers around the world.

Now, I would like to know the technical details of this mechanism. Here are some of the questions I have:

1. Does CloudFlare act as a cache proxy? Say, I have a bunch of images on the pages of my site. Does CloudFlare cache all those images on each of their data centers and then serve them from those data centers?
   
    
2. Which site resources are affected? Only static ones? What about the web pages themselves (the HTML documents)? What if the pages are dynamically generated by my server? How does CloudFlare make sure to always serve the most up-to-date version of the page?
   
    
3. What about POST requests to my site (e.g. a visitor uploading data via Ajax which is then stored in the database)? This stuff has to be executed on my server. So, CloudFlare doesn't (and cannot) increase the performance of this process, right? So, CloudFlare just relays the Ajax request to the original web host?

What I understand so far:

• You keep your current web hosting, but you change the DNS servers for your site from the DNS servers of your current hosting to CloudFlare's DNS servers.
• CloudFlare serves your website's resources from multiple data centers around the world.

Now, I would like to know the technical details of this mechanism. Here are some of the questions I have:

1. Does CloudFlare act as a cache proxy? Say I have a bunch of images on the pages of my site. Does CloudFlare cache all those images on each of their data centers and then serve them from those data centers?
2. Which site resources are affected? Only static ones? What about the web pages themselves (the HTML documents)? What if the pages are dynamically generated by my server? How does CloudFlare make sure to always serve the most up-to-date version of the page?
3. What about POST requests to my site (e.g. a visitor uploading data via Ajax which is then stored in the database)? This stuff has to be executed on my server. So, CloudFlare doesn't (and cannot) increase the performance of this process, right? So, CloudFlare just relays the Ajax request to the original web host?

What I understand so far:

• You keep your current web hosting, but you change the DNS servers for your site from the DNS servers of your current hosting to CloudFlare's DNS servers.
• CloudFlare serves your website's resources from multiple data centers around the world.

Now, I would like to know the technical details of this mechanism. Here are some of the questions I have:

1. Does CloudFlare act as a cache proxy? Say, I have a bunch of images on the pages of my site. Does CloudFlare cache all those images on each of their data centers and then serve them from those data centers?
2. Which site resources are affected? Only static ones? What about the web pages themselves (the HTML documents)? What if the pages are dynamically generated by my server? How does CloudFlare make sure to always serve the most up-to-date version of the page?
3. What about POST requests to my site (e.g. a visitor uploading data via Ajax which is then stored in the database)? This stuff has to be executed on my server. So, CloudFlare doesn't (and cannot) increase the performance of this process, right? So, CloudFlare just relays the Ajax request to the original web host?

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What I understand so far:

• You keep your current web hosting, but you change the DNS servers for your site from the DNS servers of your current hosting to CloudFlare's DNS servers.
• CloudFlare serves your website's resources from multiple data centers around the world.

Now, I would like to know the technical details of this mechanism. Here are some of the questions I have:

1. Does CloudFlare act as a cache proxy? Say, I have a bunch of images on the pages of my site. Does CloudFlare cache all those images on each of their data centers and then serve them from those data centers? 
   
   
2. Which site resources are affected? Only static ones? What about the web pages themselves (the HTML documents)? What if the pages are dynamically generated by my server? How does CloudFlare make sure to always serve the most up-to-date version of the page? 
   
   
3. What about POST requests to my site (e.g. a visitor uploading data via Ajax which is then stored in the database)? This stuff has to be executed on my server. So, CloudFlare doesn't (and cannot) increase the performance of this process, right? So, CloudFlare just relays the Ajax request to the original web host?