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Taringa! Expands with Cloudflare’s Global Network
Technology Category
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries
- Telecommunications
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
The 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 The 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.
The 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.
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