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Cloudflare has actively engaged with and partnered with web hosting and service providers to extend its reach and value proposition. This includes collaborations with companies like (mt) Media Temple, DreamHost, Verio, and UK2 Group, focusing on enhancing their offerings for small businesses and customers. The strategy involves acquiring complementary services and integrating them to provide a more comprehensive solution, encompassing website creation, performance, security, and marketing services. The partnership with DreamHost, announced in 2012, marked a significant step in offering one-click integration of Cloudflare services to their customers, including a custom 'Cloudflare Plus' plan with features like image optimization and SSL. This partnership model has been a cornerstone of Cloudflare's growth, enabling widespread adoption of its performance and security solutions.
10/20/2023
Introduced the Tenant Platform dashboard, providing a user interface for agencies and partners to manage client accounts. This includes features for provisioning accounts, managing subscriptions, and configuring services. The dashboard offers account-level security and performance insights, as well as a managed accounts overview with cumulative spend, product activation reviews, and audit log summaries.
6/6/2019
This post announces the launch of Cloudflare's new Partner Platform, a significant evolution in its web hosting and service provider partnership strategy. It details the development of this platform, driven by the need to support new products and the expanding requirements of partners. The post highlights the initial partnership with IBM, which served as a pilot for the new platform, and introduces the core components: 'Tenants' for account provisioning and 'Subscriptions' for flexible service packaging. It also provides a walkthrough of the API for provisioning customer accounts, granting access, enabling services, and service configuration, demonstrating how this platform enables partners to sell and provision Cloudflare services at scale.
7/23/2015
This post introduces 'Partner Analytics', a new feature within the Partner Portal that provides web hosting and service provider partners with granular data on the benefits Cloudflare delivers. It quantizes bandwidth savings, details the types and volume of threats blocked, and reports on requests and unique visitors handled by Cloudflare on behalf of the partner's customers. This directly addresses the need for partners to demonstrate the value of Cloudflare to their own operations and customers, moving beyond anecdotal evidence to data-driven insights.
1/6/2014
This post announces a partnership with 1&1 Internet, a significant hosting provider, making Cloudflare's services, including the advanced Railgun technology, available to 1&1 customers through their control panel. It highlights the 'Optimized Partner' program, which allows hosts to offer Railgun to their customers by acting as aggregation points, thereby democratizing access to premium performance features.
12/4/2012
This post announces the official launch of a partnership between Cloudflare and Parallels. It details how Parallels Service Providers using Plesk or Parallels Automation can easily integrate Cloudflare for their customers, enabling enterprise-grade performance and security. The integration allows for one-click activation of Cloudflare Free and the offering of Cloudflare Performance Plus, generating revenue for partners. The post also highlights operational benefits for partners, such as reduced server load, bandwidth savings, DDoS protection, and an automatic IPv4/6 gateway.
4/5/2012
This post announces the partnership between Cloudflare and DreamHost, making Cloudflare's services available to all DreamHost customers through a one-click integration. It highlights the benefits of this partnership, including simplified DNS management, inclusion of mod_cloudflare, and the introduction of a custom 'Cloudflare Plus' plan for DreamHost customers. The post also includes quotes from both companies and a press release detailing the integration and the benefits of Cloudflare's performance and security features.