Cloudflare-Internet Archive partnership keeps Internet functioning via Always Online™

 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 18 -- Cloudflare Inc has partnered with Internet Archive, a nonprofit digital library that runs a digital archive of the World Wide Web called the Wayback Machine.

According to a statement, this partnership strengthens Cloudflare’s Always Online solution that makes sites available when their origin servers are down and keeps the Internet functioning for users globally.

Launched a decade ago, Always Online is like insurance for websites. It caches a static version of websites, so, if for any reason, the web host or service provider goes down, it will kick in to keep the site online.

Without it, a website risks reputation damage, a decreased user experience and even a drop in search ranking if the website's origin goes offline, experiences a timeout or otherwise breaks.

Now, Cloudflare’s Always Online service will fetch the most recently archived version of a site from the Internet Archive, an additional safeguard, if one cannot be found in the local cache.

To do this, the Internet Archive uses the same crawling infrastructure that has allowed its Wayback Machine to archive over 465 billion web pages, to date.

Cloudflare customers can easily upgrade to the new Always Online service with one click in the Cloudflare dashboard. This will allow the Wayback Machine to crawl and archive its website at regular intervals.

-- BERNAMA