Case Study: Yola.com achieves Universal SSL, vendor consolidation and faster site performance with Cloudflare

Yola Uses Cloudflare To Secure Their Websites And Shrewdly Manage Their Service Costs

Yola, a San Francisco–based website builder and hosting platform with more than 10 million users and 50 million pages, wanted to roll out Universal SSL across its network while simplifying operations and reducing vendor costs. Although Yola already used DDoS protection, a CDN, and managed DNS, the team sought a single-vendor solution that could securely and efficiently migrate millions of user sites.

Cloudflare delivered Universal SSL plus DDoS mitigation, global CDN, and fast DNS, and Yola migrated its user base via Cloudflare’s host API in a matter of weeks. Consolidating vendors cut costs and boosted performance—automatic L3/L4 DDoS protection, faster page loads from Cloudflare’s 76 PoPs and DNS, and a 40% cache hit rate that significantly reduced bandwidth usage and improved customer satisfaction.

Yola.com

Lisa Retief

VP of Engineering