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I’m sure you have read recent stories similar to the Sony Playstation network breach, if not then look it up. Network breaches result in the theft of personal data of millions of users. The last thing that you want for your online business is a breach. Our lives are becoming reliant on online businesses, and we have to divulge our personal information trusting that these companies can keep it safe. There are a lot of hackers and programmers whose job it is to invade websites and networks.

Small business owners don’t have the money or resources to fight hackers. That is where affordable options like Incapsula come in. Incapsula is a great alternative to Cloudflare CDN

Incapsula is a security solution to keep spammers and hackers from breaching your website. They offer website security, increased speed, and real time updates regarding threats to your site.

There is no size regulation to use Incapsula. Anyone with a website and their own domain are welcome to use the service. Adding it is easy by following directions to change your domain’s DNS settings. Incapsula uses a Web Application Firewall that detects new attackers and threats and protects your website. The servers inspect all of the incoming traffic to your site and keep the threats out.

In addition to security, the service also makes your website faster because it caches the content and serves it from the back end reducing the load on your servers.

The best thing is that there is no hardware or software to install and you can keep your current provider. If you don’t like the service, you can just turn it off, and go about your business as you did before you turned it on.

Incapsula CDN is easy to use. Once you have it on, it is easy to check out statistics about your website by logging onto their site as often as you wish. You can distinguish between human and bots visiting your website, and see the bandwidth being used.

The online support is lacking in that there is not a support chat feature, but they have an extensive forum with a variety of help topics and discussions about features and questions. There are topics for basic users as well as more advanced help available. The user forum also allows users to discuss features.

There are 4 different plans that you can choose from depending on your website needs. The Personal Plan is free, and provides a lot of options for most users. You get up to 25 GB transfer per month, security that includes bad bot blocking, SQL injection prevention and cross-site scripting prevention, performance improvement, monitoring, a management console, weekly digest reports, and community support.