January 12, 2012 10:42 PM
We regularly monitor the Alexa top 1 million websites for trends. Specifically, we've been tracking how many of them support IPv6 connections. The numbers are still low but have been improving. ...
November 15, 2011 12:06 AM
As you may have noticed recently, our engineers have been releasing a bunch of new products over the past few weeks. In addition to a vastly improved and cheaper option for adding CloudFlare SSL to domains, we've also made a few changes that may have been missed with the SSL changes....
November 08, 2011 4:34 AM
At CloudFlare, we're constantly trying to make things faster. To give you a sense, at our current scale, for every 1 millisecond (1/1000th of a second) we remove from requests through our network, we save a lifetime (70 years) worth of time every year....
November 04, 2011 11:41 PM
SSL today is too hard. While it's something every website should support, even for the technically savvy, getting a SSL certificate properly installed on your web server can be daunting. Moreover, several platforms like Google AppEngine don't fully support SSL so it's not a possibility....
October 19, 2011 2:45 AM
We've been making a lot of improvements deep within CloudFlare that you'll start to see the benefits of over the coming weeks. As the changes graduate from our tests to full production, we'll try and give you a sense of what they are and why they're important. ...
September 27, 2011 8:45 AM
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 million unique visitors in the last month. ...
September 16, 2011 8:23 PM
As many of our Facebook fans and Twitter followers may have noticed recently, CloudFlare has been spending a fair amount of time recently asking what we can do to improve the service. ...
January 19, 2011 12:18 AM
We're happy to release today a couple APIs that allow web developers to integrate CloudFlare directly into their web applications. CloudFlare DNS / Threat Control API CloudFlare Settings API If you're a web developer, what could you do with these APIs? Well, you could.......
January 05, 2011 10:43 PM
CloudFlare protects your website from malicious attacks by stopping the request before it reaches your server. Often these requests are from automated bots crawling your website looking for a vulnerability. Sometimes, the threat is a web surfer whose computer has been compromised...
January 01, 2011 2:19 AM
We were just issued a new IP address range which we will begin to deploy soon. The new range is: 173.245.48.0/20 (173.245.48.0 - 173.245.63.255)...
December 06, 2010 11:50 PM
As a fellow startup, it's been really painful to watch the challenges Tumblr has gone though over the last 24 hours. With any sufficiently complex system, it is inevitable that unexpected problems will arise. ...
November 12, 2010 1:34 AM
Caching is great. Cloudflare makes sites faster in part by taking the static portions of your site and moving them closer to the visitors to your site. Cloudflare is smart about only caching static objects so you can run a dynamic, database-driven site and it will behave as you e...
