How does Cloudflare work with my existing web hosting provider?

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How does Cloudflare work with my existing web hosting provider?
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Cloudflare sits in front of your web hosting provider. When a user requests your website, the request first goes to Cloudflare. If Cloudflare has a cached version of the requested content, it serves it directly from its global network. If not, it forwards the request to your origin server (your web hosting provider). The response from your origin server is then cached by Cloudflare for future requests. This reduces load on your origin server and improves website performance.