Global hosting company, UK2 Group, has teamed-up with leading web performance and security company, CloudFlare, to extend customers' infrastructures directly to the network edge for faster website content delivery, improved optimization and deeper security.

UK2 Group's Midphase, WestHost, VPS.net and UK2.net customers deploying CloudFlare will benefit from websites which, on average, load twice as fast and use 65 percent less bandwidth. They will also be better protected from DDoS attacks, email harvesting and other online threats. Intelligence from an attack against one site is extended to protect the entire CloudFlare community within seconds.

CloudFlare can boost performance and security of any type of website with no need to add hardware or install software.  It is particularly effective for sites that regularly experience spikes in traffic, have an e-commerce platform, or a history of security breaches and a risk of being targeted by DDoS attacks.   

John Morris, COO of UK2 Group said: "Our CloudFlare service offers affordable access to enterprise-grade security and performance regardless of whether they are an entrepreneur, or a small or large business. The service offers customers easy set-up and it can be deployed within minutes. Our customers won't need to change any existing code to benefit from improved security and faster speeds from both mobile and desktop browsers."

"CloudFlare is designed to take a great hosting platform like UK2's and make it even more secure," said Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of CloudFlare. "We are delighted to be partnered with UK2 as we both base our businesses on putting our customers first and providing them with trusted, reliable and easy-to-use-solutions."

More than 5 percent of global internet requests flow through CloudFlare's network each day and because its technology sits on the network edge, customers are protected from malicious traffic before it ever reaches their infrastructure.