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CloudFlare's 2012: Happy New Year!

Published on January 01, 2013 02:14AM by Matthew Prince.

CloudFlare's 2012: Happy New
Year!

For about half the world (and about half of CloudFlare's data centers) it's already 2013. As our team (most of whom are in San Francisco) get ...

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Why Google Went Offline Today and a Bit about How the Internet Works

Published on November 06, 2012 09:09AM by Tom Paseka.

Today, Google's services experienced a limited outage for about 27 minutes over some portions of the Internet. The reason this happened dives into the deep, dark corners of networking. I'm a network engineer at CloudFlare and I played a small part in helping ensure Google came back online ...

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CloudFlare's Global Reach

Published on November 02, 2012 08:19PM by Matthew Prince.

CloudFlare's Global
Reach

CloudFlare is based in San Francisco, California, USA but we serve a global audience. Every minute of every day we send and receive traffic from nearly all of the world's networks ...

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View Comments | Tagged with customers, savetheweb, tshirt, traffic

CloudFlare Works with GlobalSign to Make SSL Faster Across the Web

Published on November 01, 2012 04:34PM by Matthew Prince.

CloudFlare Works with GlobalSign to Make SSL Faster Across the
Web

Earlier this week we announced how CloudFlare enabled OCSP stapling in order to improve our customers' SSL performance ...

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Happy Second Birthday CloudFlare!

Published on September 27, 2012 09:55PM by Matthew Prince.

Happy Second Birthday
CloudFlare!

Michelle, Lee and I started working on CloudFlare back in early 2009. It took about a year and a half for us to fully bake the idea, hire a team, write the ...

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Global IPv6 Challenge: No More Excuses, Enable the Future

Published on May 25, 2012 12:36AM by Matthew Prince.

Global IPv6 Challenge: No More Excuses, Enable the
Future

Wednesday, June 6, 2012 is World IPv6 Day. At CloudFlare we're issuing a challenge to every site on the Internet: it ...

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Moog Music: Staying online when Google doodles you

Published on May 23, 2012 10:46PM by Matthew Prince.

Moog Music: Staying online when Google doodles
you

Today Google celebrated the birthday of Bob Moog, the creator of the Moog keyboard, with an interactive doodle. If you haven't played with ...

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DNSChanger Update: Nearly 4% of Infections Already Detected

Published on May 21, 2012 12:33AM by Matthew Prince.

DNSChanger Update: Nearly 4% of Infections Already
Detected

Just a quick update on the initiative between CloudFlare, OpenDNS, and the DCWG to clean up the DNSChanger malware. In the last week, just ...

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CloudFlare & OpenDNS Work Together to Help the Web

Published on May 03, 2012 03:00PM by Matthew Prince.

CloudFlare & OpenDNS Work Together to Help the
Web

Several years ago, some suspected cyber criminals on the Internet wrote a family of malware dubbed DNSChanger. About a year ago, law enforcement tracked ...

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CloudFlare Helping IPv6 Reach Escape Velocity

Published on February 02, 2012 05:15AM by CloudFlare.

On January 26, CloudFlare joined the "World IPv6 Launch" being organized by The Internet Society. If you haven't heard about it, it is an effort to encourage companies commit to "permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services" by 6 June 2012 -- see http://www.worldipv6launch.org/ for details ...

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