Case Study: Trustbank achieves 90% server cost reduction and improved site performance with Cloudflare

Cloudflare helps Trustbank reduce server costs by 90% and improve site performance

Trustbank operates “Furusato Choice,” a Japanese hometown-tax donation site that connects donors with municipalities to support regional development. As traffic grew and the site began handling sensitive payment data, Trustbank needed a trialable solution to improve performance and security because it initially ran without a CDN.

They adopted Cloudflare—starting on a free plan and expanding to Advanced DDoS Protection, Load Balancing, Page Rules and Argo—using a single dashboard and enterprise support. The Cloudflare CDN now handles over 90% of requests, reducing origin server usage to one-tenth (cutting server costs by about 90%), improving content delivery and mobile image handling, and helping block illegal access to protect payment data.

Trustbank

Keiichiro Takahashi

Estonia Branch Manager