{"id":252943,"date":"2018-03-20T08:49:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T06:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=252943"},"modified":"2018-03-20T08:51:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T06:51:08","slug":"cloudflare-launches-new-durban-data-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/252943-cloudflare-launches-new-durban-data-centre.html","title":{"rendered":"Cloudflare launches new Durban data centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cloudflare now has a data centre presence in Durban and\u00a0Port Louis, Mauritius.<\/p>\n<p>This expands the\u00a0Cloudflare network to 137 cities globally, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cloudflare.com\/durban-and-port-louis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>said the company<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just in March, so far, we&#8217;ve launched new data centres across Beirut, Phnom Penh, Kathmandu, Istanbul, Reykjav\u00edk, Riyadh, Macau, and Baghdad,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>Cloudflare&#8217;s first deployment in Africa was in\u00a0Johannesburg three years ago. Since then, it has expanded to\u00a0Cape Town and several other African cities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Durban is our third deployment in South Africa, where mobile adoption continues to drive traffic growth amongst 20 million Internet users.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In addition to better serving KwaZulu-Natal, our Durban data centre will provide additional redundancy and expand the surface area for Cloudflare to withstand potential DDoS attacks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are participants at two interconnection points: NAP Africa IX Durban and DINX (Durban Internet Exchange),&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/252911-nimbus-data-unveils-100tb-ssd.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Nimbus Data unveils 100TB SSD<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloudflare now has a data centre presence in Durban and\u00a0Port Louis, Mauritius.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":230835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[29694],"class_list":["post-252943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-cloudflare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252945,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252943\/revisions\/252945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}