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Taringa! Expands with Cloudflare’s Global Network

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Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries	Telecommunications
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
Challenge	Taringa!, the largest user-generated content platform in Latin America, was experiencing exponential growth with a user base expanding across Argentina, Mexico, Spain, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Venezuela, and the US Hispanic community. As the user base continued to grow, Taringa! executives were looking for a way to ensure a fast and reliable online experience. They needed a performance and security company that was aggressively expanding their network in countries where most of their users live. Read More
About Customer	Taringa! is the largest user-generated content platform born and raised in Latin America. This social publishing platform allows over 60 million users to share their opinions, interests, and experiences democratically and without censorship. Since its inception in 2004, the site has experienced exponential growth, with top markets in Argentina, Mexico, Spain, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Venezuela, and the US Hispanic community. As its user base continues to expand, Taringa! executives started looking for a way to ensure a fast and reliable online experience. Read More
Solution	Taringa! chose Cloudflare, a company with a global network of 76 datacenters and a heavy presence in Spanish-speaking countries such as Argentina, Perú, Chile, Colombia, Spain, as well as the US. Since moving their application onto Cloudflare in 2015, Taringa! has made good use of Cloudflare’s global caching to dramatically decrease load times and save over 80% on monthly bandwidth costs. The overall availability of the site improved not only on the good days but also on the bad ones. Another benefit Taringa! experienced with Cloudflare’s solution was how easy it is to implement encryption. This not only makes communication more secure, it also allows Taringa! to take advantage of all the performance features of HTTP/2 with no configuration on their end. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Applicable Industries

Telecommunications

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Challenge

Taringa!, the largest user-generated content platform in Latin America, was experiencing exponential growth with a user base expanding across Argentina, Mexico, Spain, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Venezuela, and the US Hispanic community. As the user base continued to grow, Taringa! executives were looking for a way to ensure a fast and reliable online experience. They needed a performance and security company that was aggressively expanding their network in countries where most of their users live.

About Customer

Taringa! is the largest user-generated content platform born and raised in Latin America. This social publishing platform allows over 60 million users to share their opinions, interests, and experiences democratically and without censorship. Since its inception in 2004, the site has experienced exponential growth, with top markets in Argentina, Mexico, Spain, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Venezuela, and the US Hispanic community. As its user base continues to expand, Taringa! executives started looking for a way to ensure a fast and reliable online experience.

Solution

Taringa! chose Cloudflare, a company with a global network of 76 datacenters and a heavy presence in Spanish-speaking countries such as Argentina, Perú, Chile, Colombia, Spain, as well as the US. Since moving their application onto Cloudflare in 2015, Taringa! has made good use of Cloudflare’s global caching to dramatically decrease load times and save over 80% on monthly bandwidth costs. The overall availability of the site improved not only on the good days but also on the bad ones. Another benefit Taringa! experienced with Cloudflare’s solution was how easy it is to implement encryption. This not only makes communication more secure, it also allows Taringa! to take advantage of all the performance features of HTTP/2 with no configuration on their end.

Impact #1	Taringa! has made good use of Cloudflare’s global caching to dramatically decrease load times.
Impact #2	The overall availability of the site improved not only on the good days but also on the bad ones.
Impact #3	Taringa! experienced how easy it is to implement encryption with Cloudflare’s solution.

Impact #1

Taringa! has made good use of Cloudflare’s global caching to dramatically decrease load times.

Impact #2

The overall availability of the site improved not only on the good days but also on the bad ones.

Impact #3

Taringa! experienced how easy it is to implement encryption with Cloudflare’s solution.

Benefit #1	Taringa! saved over 80% on monthly bandwidth costs.
Benefit #2	Taringa! serves 500 TB of image traffic through Cloudflare every month to over 60 million users.

Benefit #1

Taringa! saved over 80% on monthly bandwidth costs.

Benefit #2

Taringa! serves 500 TB of image traffic through Cloudflare every month to over 60 million users.

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Taringa! Expands with Cloudflare’s Global Network

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