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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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How to Launch a 65Gbps DDoS, and How to Stop One

Published on September 17, 2012 10:17PM by Matthew Prince.

How to Launch a 65Gbps DDoS, and How to Stop
One

Yesterday I posted a post mortem on an outage we had Saturday. The outage was caused when we ...

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View Comments | Tagged with anycast, ddos, ddosmitigation, dns, imunderattack, traffic

30% More Traffic in Less Than a Blink of an Eye

Published on April 19, 2012 12:43AM by Matthew Prince.

30% More Traffic in Less Than a Blink of an
Eye

CloudFlare's traffic grows in a number of different ways. The most obvious is that we sign up ...

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View Comments | Tagged with faster, peering, routing, singapore, traffic

Do Hackers Take the Holidays Off?

Published on December 15, 2011 12:28AM by Matthew Prince.

I was talking last week with Shawn Graham, a reporter at Fast Company, and he asked a simple but interesting question: do hackers take the holidays off?

CloudFlare sees traffic for hundreds of thousands of websites so we were able to answer that question by looking at the average percentage ...

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View Comments | Tagged with attacks, data, hackers, holidays, traffic

100 Billion Page Views

Published on December 09, 2011 04:49AM by Matthew Prince.

100 Billion Page
Views

In the next few hours, CloudFlare will cross having served more than 100 billion page views over the last year. We've been growing very quickly. To give you a sense, a ...

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Is Cyber Monday Real?

Published on December 02, 2011 02:33AM by Matthew Prince.

Is Cyber Monday
Real?

I wrote a post last week about Surviving Black Friday, the biggest offline shopping day of the year in the United States. However, the biggest online shopping day of the year in ...

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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

2,000 Page Views Per Second

Published on May 18, 2011 01:21AM by Matthew Prince.

2,000 Page Views Per
Second

This morning we crossed a milestone: delivering a sustained average of 2,000 page views per second. Peak traffic is even higher. Once upon a time we ...

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What's On CloudFlare's Mind

Published on May 02, 2011 11:02PM by Matthew Prince.

What's On CloudFlare's
Mind

CloudFlare sits in front of tens of thousands of websites. In the last month, nearly 5% of the Internet's visitors passed through our network at least ...

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