Case Study: Poetry Foundation protects poets’ work and improves site performance with Cloudflare

Poetry Foundation protects 47,000 poems with Cloudflare

The Poetry Foundation, which hosts a large digital poetry archive and publishes Poetry Magazine, faced the challenge of modernizing its aging custom tech stack to improve site performance and protect its intellectual property from malicious bots and AI scrapers. To address these issues, they engaged Cloudflare, initially implementing its Web Application Firewall (WAF) and image resizing capabilities.

Cloudflare provided a comprehensive solution, with Cloudflare Pages streamlining frontend hosting and deployment, while its WAF and DDoS mitigation defenses protected the site from daily attacks and content scraping. The results included a cheaper, easier-to-maintain website with improved page load speeds for better SEO, allowing the Poetry Foundation team to focus on enhancing content and user experience while securely fulfilling their mission.

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