ServerShield makes it easy to activate CloudFlare and StopTheHacker

CloudFlare has partnered with Parallels, the leading hosting solutions provider, to make server protection, content acceleration and malware removal easier than ever. We recently launched CloudFlare ServerShield® to all Plesk 12 users as an extension. ServerShield combines the performance and security features of CloudFlare with the malware scanning and removal solution of StopTheHacker. Whether you are a hosting provider looking to offer additional services to your customers, or a Plesk server user, you can access ServerShield with two easy clicks.

Already, a number of hosters and agencies have found ServerShield a key addition to their tools to help their customer sites’ security and performance. Rafal Kukla a Company Director of FilioTech Limited, a UK based IT Service Provider, had this to say:

“ServerShield made it straightforward to give my customers industry leading security and performance as well as reputation monitoring. Running a busy agency, I am focused on my customers' site design, ServerShield allows me to do that without sacrificing the fundamentals of site functionality. With one single click I can enable CloudFlare among all my customers instead of spending time configuring each site separately.”

We believe that this extension is incredibly timely for the Plesk user community. DDoS attacks, a major concern for site owners, continue to increase in virulence and frequency. Over the last 12 months, we have seen separate attacks of 300 Gbps and 400 Gbps targeted at CloudFlare customers. In addition, studies show that security is among the top three web apps that SMBs seek from hosters (source: Parallels SMB Insights 2014).

As DDoS attacks increase, it’s your valuable time and resource that is spent responding to customers under attack. In the past, you’ve probably had to go through the painful task of nullifying the customer’s IP address, leaving the customer with their site offline. With ServerShield, the attack is stopped in its tracks at the edge before it even reaches the site. Web hosters can even switch on ServerShield by default, meaning no panicked calls from customers in the first place. ServerShield addresses another major customer support headache as well—malware. Estimates suggest that as many as 15% of sites are infected with this nuisance. ServerShield not only blocks these attacks, providing a dashboard to show customers how many threats have been prevented, it also provides means to trigger an automatic malware clean-up of infected accounts.

ServerShield comes pre-installed in all Plesk12 servers, and is available in English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, and Italian. If you would like to make your customers sites more secure with ServerShield, getting set up is simple: go to the Plesk Control Panel Home Page, select the CloudFlare Apache Module, and click Install. After successfull installation, CloudFlare is added to “Links to Additional Services”. If you don’t see the CloudFlare Apache Module, we’ve made the extension package available on our resources page along with a handy setup guide.

If you have any questions or feedback, please contact us on plesk@cloudflare.com. We would love to hear from you!

Below are highlights and video clips from five of those conversations. Tune in to hear the latest in mobile services, how hosting providers are expanding across the world, and what these companies are looking forward to in 2013.

When it comes to mobile, TuCows is giving AT&T and Verizon a run for their money with Ting. Elliot explains the benefits of Ting, what's new with their mobile service and why wifi on your phone is all the rage...

For 2013, Hostnet's application and POA program is really starting to take off. Listen in as Merjin discusses how they've grown and what new services they're bringing to their customers in 2013...

Providing an arrange of hosting services, ViUX is improvingperformance and reliability for their customers and considers themselves a complete Parallels shop. One area they pride themselves on? Customer service...

Limestone Networks is in the business of mission critical data. Their infrastructure supports some of the most reliable data centers around. Their support motto? Simple. Solid. Superior.

Atomia is making it easier than ever to run a business. They focus on the automation and billing platform for hosting providers so businesses can focus on what they do best. Hear what Atomia is working on for 2013...

For these conversations, CloudFlare co-founderMichelle Zatlyn sat down with 15 leading experts in the hosting and service provider industry. Their conversations were captured live and offer insight into the latest trends and news in hosting and web services.

Below are highlights and video clips from five of those conversations. We will be posting the rest of the videos next week.

When it comes to the adoption of Plesk 11, Dan says it's all about the gateway. Listen in as he discusses Plesk 11 benefits, changes to the hosting space in the last few years, and what country Parallels is really big in right now...

Sam knows spam. As the CEO of one of the most widely deployed packages offered in the APS catalog, Sam has seen all the trends in email spam. Sam tells us what hosting providers are most concerned about and what the newest sector of email spam looks like...

"We have to adapt. If we're not doing it, we won't sell" - Marco emphasizes ease of adoption and making UIs as simple as possible. Oh, and LuxCloud is a globally impacting company with an employee headcount that might surprise you...

MobeeArt is like mobile magic, for your website. MobeeArtautomatically converts websites to mobile. Sound too good to be true? It's not. And they are announcing a feature that's going to make running a mobile website even better...

Michele has his finger on the pulse of Internet policy. There are big issues the hosting industry will be facing over the next few years. Michele discusses these issues and what we can do to help...

CloudFlare is heading to Parallels Summit in Las Vegas on Monday, February 4th to Wednesday, February 6th. We look forward to meeting and reconnecting with service providers and providing complimentary limo rides between the airport and the Caesars Palace hotel.

We recently launched a partnership with Parallels. Any Parallels service provider can increase revenue, while providing security and performance to customers' web properties and applications.

If you are already a CloudFlare Certified Partner, come introduce yourself at our booth (#113) and hear what we've been working on. If you are not a partner yet, stop by to learn more about CloudFlare and ways we can work together.

8am-4pm: Limo transfers from McCarran International Airport to the Caesars Palace Hotel. Sign up now to ride in style!

4pm-7pm: Welcome Reception and Exhibit Hall opening, find CloudFlare at booth #113.

CloudFlare limo rides

12:30pm onwards: CloudFlare is in the Exhibit Hall at Booth #113.

1pm-4pm: Conversations with CloudFlare - We will be conducting live video interviews with thought leaders within the web services industry, including founders and executives. Check out the video interviews we conducted at HostingCon 2013.

4pm-5pm: Our co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince will be speaking on the cloud portfolio panel breakout session "What's in your 2013 Cloud Portfolio?"

7pm-11pm: Come find us at the conference attendee party at PURE nightclub

Industry leader interviews

10:30am onwards: CloudFlare is in the Exhibit Hall at Booth #113.

2pm: Our co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince will be presenting in the Partners Theater Presentation.

Connect with us on Twitter during the event to find out where we are and what's coming up next:

#parallelssummit@ParallelsSummit@CloudFlare

Viva Las Vegas!

In early October we quietly announced our partnership with Parallels, a global leader in hosting, cloud services enablement and desktop virtualization. Parallels makes it easier for service providers, like webhosts, to grow their business with service delivery software and a robust partner ecosystem.

Today, we are officially launching our partnership with Parallels. If you are a Parallels Service Provider and are using either Plesk or Parallels Automation, it means two things for you. First, your customers will be able to activate CloudFlare with a few clicks from their Parallels control panel. Second, you can now generate revenue by offering CloudFlare Performance Plus in addition to CloudFlare Free.

The partnership has made it super easy for all Parallels Service Providers to offer enterprise-grade performance and security to any website, especially their SMB and e-commerce customers. To get started, a hosting provider can install CloudFlare from the APS catalog. Installation takes less than 5 minutes and CloudFlare can be activated by all customers with just a few clicks.

Since our soft launch, we worked with over a hundred Parallels Service Providers who successfully integrated CloudFlare. In addition to generating revenue, partners enjoy many operational benefits such as reduced server load, bandwidth savings, protection from DDoS attacks and an automatic IPv4/6 gateway. Here's what some of them are saying about the partnership:

"As a result of our partnership with Parallels, we have been able to bring a number of innovative solutions to our customers," said Celal Ulgen, Chief Marketing Officer at SoftCom, parent company to the popular myhosting.com. "Now that CloudFlare is available in Parallels Automation, we will have another service to further improve our customers' experience."

"CloudFlare is so much more than just a content delivery network; the service optimizes web traffic, protects against online attacks, and provides real-time statistics," said Marco Houwen, CEO and co-founder of LuxCloud. "We are thrilled to be adding CloudFlare to our marketplace so that our partners can offer enhanced performance and increased security to their customers."

"The new Parallels Plesk Panel plugin is a great addition that allows for quick and easy deployment of CloudFlare on our shared web hosting, virtual and dedicated servers," said Gerardo Altman, CEO of Velocity Host. "CloudFlare allows us to get more out of every server and network connection in our cloud."

If you are a Parallels Plesk Panel service provider interested in signing up for the program, visit our Parallels page today:

www.cloudflare.com/parallels

Parallels makes it easier for service providers, like webhosts, to grow their business with service delivery software and a robust partner ecosystem. More than 9,000 service providers use Parallels to deliver thousands of applications and cloud services to 10 million small and medium businesses (SMBs) in 130 countries.

Today, we are excited to announce the CloudFlare and Parallels partnership. CloudFlare is available to all Parallels Plesk Panel 11 and 10.4 service providers through the APS catalog. It takes less than 5 minutes to install and comes in twoplans: CloudFlare Free and CloudFlare Performance Plus. We've made it super easy for all Parallels Service Providers to offer enterprise-grade performance and security to their customers. With just a few clicks, website owners can activate CloudFlare from their Parallels Panel.

Parallels Service Providers get many operational benefits; reduced server load, bandwidth savings, protection from DDoS attacks and an automatic IPv4/6 gateway. For the first time, we've also enabled every Parallels Service Provider to resell CloudFlare to their customers and generate revenue.

"The new CloudFlare Parallels Panel plugin allows for quick and easy deployment," said Gerado Altman, National Partner & Reseller Manager at Velocity Host. "We would love to keep CloudFlare as our own secret weapon but really the more users who are on the network the greater the power CloudFlare has to wield against malicious attacks and help all those who use their services."

Our goal at CloudFlare is to bring premium performance and security services to every website. Today, over 500,000 websites use CloudFlare, ranging from blogs to SMBs to ecommerce websites to governments to Fortune 500 companies. Through our partnership with Parallels, we will be able to deliver performance and security to even more websites around the world. We're thrilled to be working with the Parallels team.

If you are a Parallels Plesk Panel service provider, sign up for the program here: www.cloudflare.com/parallels

In addition to Parallels Panel, Parallels also offers Parallels Automation. We are finalizing our integration into the Parallels Automation software and expect to release it later this year.

If you host with a hosting provider that uses Parallels Plesk Panel and they haven't enabled CloudFlare yet, encourage them to check out the program.

CloudFlare is only available on Parallels Plesk Panel 10.4 and Parallels Plesk Panel 11. If you are using an earlier version of Parallels Plesk Panel, then CloudFlare is not available through this partnership.

Check out our live interview with Parallels Sr. Director/ISV and SaaS Alliance, Alex Danyluk at HostingCon 2012 as he discusses our new integration.

CloudFlare recently integrated into the Parallels APS catalog and we couldn't be more excited. We are currently in the beta phase of our partnership, and we are looking forward to our official launch later this fall.

"Application Packaging Standard is a really quick way to connect CloudFlare to thousands of service providers around the world," said Alex. "We're really excited that CloudFlare is now integrated. What your company is offering for service providers is awesome."

Parallels was founded over 10 years ago and has more than 9,000 partners around the world. Today, they are present in 130 countries around the world.

"We help service providers use our software to deliver cloud services," said Alex. "We are making it easy for them to deliver a lot of solutions to the market."

At HostingCon 2012,CloudFlare co-founderMichelle Zatlyn sat down with 28 leading experts in the hosting industry. Their conversations were captured live and offer insight into the latest trends and news in hosting.

Today, Jack is excited about how quickly Parallels has grown and the recent release of Plesk 11.

"We are growing very quickly," said Jack. "Over 9,000 service providers and over 10 million small businesses are using our platform through their service providers."

When asked how he sleeps at night, knowing that many people depend on them to keep their sites online, Jack is quite honest, "I don't," he says.

In addition to the release of Plesk 11, Parallels is focusing on their web presence builder product and tools, building it to be as intuitive, seamless and widely used as possible.

We couldn't pass up the opportunity to ask about a future Plesk 12, in which Jack told us "we never sit still. We are definitely working on the next updates."

Watch Jack's full interview with CloudFlare's co-founder Michelle Zatlyn to hear the details of Parallels growth and new products.

At HostingCon 2012, CloudFlare co-founder Michelle Zatlyn sat down with 28 leading experts in the hosting industry. Their conversations were captured live and offer insight into the latest trends and news in hosting.