Cloudflare adds Harare to its global network of cities

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Cloudflare, an American web infrastructure and website security company that provides content delivery network and DDoS mitigation services, has added 18 new cities, including to Harare to its global network.

The cities are in Africa, South America, Asia, and the Middle East, bringing its network to over 270 locations globally.

The 18 new cities in 10 countries are: Accra, Ghana; Almaty, Kazakhstan; Bhubaneshwar, India; Chiang Mai, Thailand; Joinville, Brazil; Erbil, Iraq; Fukuoka, Japan; Goiânia, Brazil; Haifa, Israel; Harare, Zimbabwe; Juazeiro do Norte, Brazil; Kanpur, India; Manaus, Brazil; Naha, Japan; Patna, India; São José do Rio Preto, Brazil; Tashkent, Uzbekistan; Uberlândia, Brazil.

The solution they offer is partnering with ISPs to embed our servers inside their network.

Why this is important is that not only does the ISP avoid lots of back haul traffic, but their subscribers also get much better performance because the website is served on-net, and close to them geographically.

Cloudflare works by caching a version of a customer’s website and any static resources, then delivering it to visitors based on their location. That ensures the least amount of distance between a visitor and a website, which reduces latency, bandwidth and page load times.

In short, it improves how you access websites by making sure it asks a server where the website you are trying to access only for new content.

Having Cloudflare in Zimbabwe means that websites (including 3-mob.com) for which it delivers content will load even faster for locals.