Have you heard of CloudFare?

CloudFare provides tools to every Webmaster to make their websites “faster, safer and smarter.”
That’s a market you want to be in and when you slap the cloud sticker on it, it has real possibilities.

Those possibilities are emerging fast and furious. Web hosting leader HostGator and SSL security specialist GlobalSign formed partnerships with the newly-established company in late September 2010, when it launched to the public at the annual TechCrunch Disrupt Conference.

Dave Collins, CTO for HostGator believes CloudFlare is going to become popular very quickly: “CloudFlare is a win-win product. It not only provides an extra layer of website security protection and reduces server load, but it informs people who are spreading viruses around.”

Another reason for its popularity may be that CloudFlare can be set-up on any website in less than five minutes without any hardware, software, or code changes, and there is a free version offered. Also, the CloudFare people inform me that, “on average, websites on CloudFlare load 30% faster, use 60% less bandwidth, have 65% fewer requests and are way more secure.”

The Palo Alto, CA-based startup won the 2009 Harvard Business School Business Plan Competition and is founded by the engineering team behind Project Honey Pot.