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Supercharged Speed & Security

Boost your website security and loading speeds with a Cloudflare CDN package from Storm

We've partnered with Cloudflare to bring you electrifying security features, supercharged website speeds, and rock-solid performance.

Add all your websites (not only those hosted with Storm) to Cloudflare's CDN and enjoy the benefit of "hive mind" security and blistering content delivery speeds. With Storm and Cloudflare's global CDN (Content Delivery Network) and proprietary Railgun optimisation technology, your website visitors will get more done faster and safer.



Improve your web site's performance by up to 200%

Combining Cloudflare's global CDN (Content Delivery Network) and proprietary Railgun optimisation technology with our own multicarrier high-speed low-latency network, we've developed WebAccelerateTM - capable of increasing page load times by up to 200%

Stop hackers attacking your site

The collective knowledge of 6 million websites powers intelligent security that protects against anything from nuisance comment spam and excessive bot crawling to potentially fatal Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), SQL injection and denial of service (DOS) attacks.

Always Online Reliability

Storm's 100% uptime guarantee backed by Cloudflare's global Anycast network ensures that your website is always online, and always available to any internet-connected device. Used by more than 6 million websites, including major e-commerce sites, government agencies, and enterprises.

Protect your data from theft & ensure you're compliant with GDPR legislation

On 25th May 2018, the new GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) legislation came into effect and applies to all individuals and organisations who store data. Fines of up to £500,000 or 4% of annual turnover are set to be imposed on anyone who does not comply or suffers a data breach. Combining our partnership with Cloudflare with our years of managed hosting and online security experience, we will help ensure that your data is safe, secure and compliant at all times.



Cloudflare Essentials

  • Threat blocking & protection from automated Bot attacks
  • Always OnlineTM helps ensure web site remains available even if server goes down
  • Basic DDoS Protection
  • Global CDN
  • IP Firewall - Force CAPTCHA challange by IP or entire country
  • 3 Page Rules included
FREE

Cloudflare Standard

Everything in Essentials, and
  • WebAccelerateTM - Up to 200% increase in web site loading speed & performance
  • Accelerate delivery of dynamic content with RailgunTM
  • Image and Mobile optimizations with PolishTM and MirageTM
  • Content routed through Storm's priority traffic network
  • 10 Page Rules included
£5/month

Cloudflare Plus

Everything in Standard, and
  • Web Application Firewall (WAF)
  • Defends against SQL Injection and Cross-Site Scripting attacks
  • Stop hackers attacking your site and manipulating your content
  • Protection from data theft
  • Helps to ensure compliance with GDPR legislation coming into affect from May 2018
  • 30 Page Rules included
£15/month

Cloudflare Ultimate

Everything in Plus, and
  • Ultimate protection for your web site and hosted data
  • Advanced DDoS protection
  • WAF with 25 custom rulesets
  • PCI compliance thanks to Modern TLS Only mode and WAF
  • Custom SSL upload support
  • 50 Page Rules included
  • Up to 60% saving compared to Cloudflare direct pricing
£100/month



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PERFORMANCE (Show/Hide)
SECURITY (Show/Hide)
Cloudflare
Essentials		 Cloudflare
Standard		 Cloudflare
Plus		 Cloudflare
Ultimate
DDoS Protection
Basic DDoS protection
Advanced DDoS protection - Layers 3 and 4 - - -
Advanced DDoS protection - Layer 7 - - -
Advanced DDoS support - - - 24/7/365 uptime
Threat Blocking & Privacy
Deploy collective intelligence to identify new threats
Reputation-based threat protection
Comment spam protection
Content scraping protection
Block or Challange visitors by IP, IP range or complete Country
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Web application firewall (WAF), with built-in Cloudflare rule set - -
OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set - -
Custom WAF rule support - - - Up to 25
Compliance
PCI DSS 3.2 Compliance - - -
SSL
Universal SSL/TLS 1.2 & 1.3 Encryption
Certificate type Cloudflare issued Cloudflare issued Cloudflare issued Cloudflare issued or custom
Opportunistic Encryption
Automatic HTTPS Rewrites
TLS Optimization
Activation time Up to 24 hours Up to 24 hours Instant Instant
Browser support Most modern browsers Most modern browsers All browsers All browsers
RELIABILITY (Show/Hide)
Cloudflare
Essentials		 Cloudflare
Standard		 Cloudflare
Plus		 Cloudflare
Ultimate
Availability
Always Online Crawled weekly Crawled weekly Crawled every 3 days Crawled daily
DNS
DNSSEC
Global Anycast DNS
Easy DNS management
Wildcard DNS support
Custom Nameservers - - -
INSIGHTS (Show/Hide)
Cloudflare
Essentials		 Cloudflare
Standard		 Cloudflare
Plus		 Cloudflare
Ultimate
Analytics
Analytics for traffic to your site Updated every
24 hours		 Updated every
24 hours		 Updated every
15 minutes		 Updated every
15 minutes
Time Range 1 hour scope 1 hour scope 15 minute scope 15 minute scope
Bandwidth Saved
Threats Mitigated & Sources
Website Requests
Operational Metrics
Client interface API
DNS Analytics
Historical Data Up to 6 hours Up to 6 hours Up to 24 hours Up to 7 days
Dimension Filter Response Code Only Response Code Only Response Code, Data Centre Response Code, Data Centre, Query Type, Day of Week
Metric Filter Query Count Only Query Count Only Query Count, Response Time Average Query Count, Response Time Average, Response Time Median, Response Time (90th & 99th Percentile)
Geographic Visualization -
SUPPORT (Show/Hide)
Cloudflare
Essentials		 Cloudflare
Standard		 Cloudflare
Plus		 Cloudflare
Ultimate
24/7/365 LiveChat technical support
Ticket based technical support
Prioritized technical support - - -
Dedicated account manager - - -
Service level agreement - - - 100% uptime
guarantee