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Introducing: Single File Cache Purge

Published on July 14, 2012 07:51AM by Matthew Prince.

Introducing: Single File Cache
Purge

CloudFlare has supported a way to purge your cache for the last year. Unfortunately, it was all or nothing. While that, for practical purposes, didn't cause a significant performance ...

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Introducing ScrapeShield: Discover, Defend & Deter Content Scraping

Published on March 29, 2012 06:30PM by Matthew Prince.

Introducing ScrapeShield: Discover, Defend & Deter Content
ScrapingIf you're a publisher, whether an individual blogger or major media outlet, you've undoubtedly experienced content scraping. Searching the web for an article you ...

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View Comments | Tagged with apps, contentscraping, free, pinterest, scrapeshield

2 Petabytes of Bandwidth (and Real Money) Saved

Published on November 14, 2011 06:44AM by Matthew Prince.

2 Petabytes of Bandwidth (and Real Money)
Saved

Sometime on Sunday, November 13, 2011 (which was a pretty awesome day on its own, quite aside from this news) we crossed the point ...

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View Comments | Tagged with bandwidth, free, milestone, petabyte

No Payola Here. Period.

Published on November 11, 2011 09:33PM by Matthew Prince.

No Payola Here.
Period.

We regularly get requests to provide a free paid account in exchange for promoting CloudFlare. I may be naive, but I was surprised to learn how many web companies go along with ...

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View Comments | Tagged with dickclark, free, honest, payola, reviews

Robust, Free DNS FTW

Published on October 18, 2011 01:10AM by Matthew Prince.

Robust, Free DNS
FTW

Most people don't think DNS is very sexy, but it's critically important to the functioning of the Internet. At its core, the purpose of DNS is to turn a domain ...

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Introducing CloudFlare's Automatic IPv6 Gateway

Published on September 27, 2011 10:45AM by Matthew Prince.

Introducing CloudFlare's Automatic IPv6
Gateway

CloudFlare launched publicly exactly one year ago today. In that year, we have grown from virtually no traffic to powering more than 15 billion page views for 350 ...

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View Comments | Tagged with 340undecillion, birthday, free, gateway, ipaddresses, ipv4, ipv6, present, savetheweb

EveryDNS Magic Data Liberation Bookmarklet

Published on August 20, 2011 04:34AM by Matthew Prince.

EveryDNS Magic Data Liberation
Bookmarklet

At CloudFlare, we believe in giving control back to website owners. This includes the idea that our users' data is theirs. One of the first functions we built was the ...

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Exiled EveryDNS Users Welcome at CloudFlare!

Published on August 16, 2011 10:53PM by Matthew Prince.

Exiled EveryDNS Users Welcome at
CloudFlare!

Much of what I know about DNS I learned from David Ulevitch, the CEO of OpenDNS. We're a big supporter of OpenDNS at CloudFlare, and John Roberts ...

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View Comments | Tagged with anycast, dns, everydns, free, importer

Pronounce: CloudFlare's Latest Free App

Published on August 16, 2011 06:31PM by Matthew Prince.

Pronounce: CloudFlare's Latest Free
App

CloudFlare's latest app lets your users read your website aloud. Pronounce is a free app that takes advantage of Microsoft's translation tools. Once enabled, your users ...

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The Folly of Charging by Bandwidth

Published on July 15, 2011 12:27AM by Matthew Prince.

The Folly of Charging by
Bandwidth

Back in 1992, I was part of a small team of students at Trinity College that helped build what turned out to be one of the first, if ...

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View Comments | Tagged with bandwidth, billing, free, nonickleanddiming, predictable, traffic

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