July 01, 2012 8:28PM
Protecting CloudFlare sites from phishing
Phishing
Abuse
As the internet has grown, phishing attacks have continued to be a problem. While better awareness and focus on security has helped reduce their number, the RSA and other services tracking phishing still show that somewhere between 20-30,000 phishing attacks generally occur every month....
April 16, 2012 8:04PM
CloudFlare Tips: Recommended steps after activating through a partner
Best Practices
Onboarding
Best Practices
IPv6
Rocket Loader
Speed & Reliability
CloudFlare has partnered with a number of CloudFlare Certified Partners to make it simple for website owners that want a faster and safer website....
April 10, 2012 11:33PM
CloudFlare's New UI: Managing DNS records
Dashboard
Product News
We have released a number of changes to the site to make things easier to find and locate. Since making changes to existing DNS records and adding new ones are vitally important to site owners, we thought it would be helpful to craft a blog post showing the changes to the DNS editor....
March 31, 2012 7:48PM
Check out CloudFlare's New UI
Cloudflare History
Product News
Dashboard
CloudFlare has been beta testing a new account interface for several months with many of our followers on Facebook and Twitter. This week, we rolled out the new interface to all CloudFlare users....
March 09, 2012 7:12PM
Cloudflare Tips: Recommended Steps for New Users
IPv6
Cloudflare Apps
Best Practices
Page Rules
Onboarding
CloudFlare's core value is that we speed up and protect any website. For new and current users, we wanted to pull together a handy guide that helps you get the most out of CloudFlare....
November 18, 2011 11:08PM
Cloudflare Tips: Troubleshooting Common Problems
Bugs
Best Practices
Ninjas
Debugging technical issues online can be tricky. There are many moving pieces; it can be an isolated network connection with the ISP, an issue with your server or one of CloudFlare's data centers could be temporarily having a problem....
November 15, 2011 12:06AM
CloudFlare Product Updates: Updated WordPress Plugin, Invoices & New CloudFlare IP addresses
WordPress
Product News
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....
September 16, 2011 9:23PM
CloudFlare Tips: 5 Frequently used CloudFlare API calls
API
Product News
Developers
Best Practices
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....
August 27, 2011 9:29PM
Cloudflare Tips: Top Tips when activating through a Cloudflare Hosting Partner
Best Practices
Onboarding
CloudFlare is a service that utilizes proprietary technology to make websites run safer and faster around the world. We currently run 12 data centers (with more on the way) on three continents to provide static content caching, bot filtering and more for all of our users....
August 22, 2011 6:14PM
Cloudflare tips: Speeding up your WordPress blog
WordPress
Optimization
Best Practices
Best Practices
WordPress is probably the most popular blogging platform on CloudFlare, with many WordPress users taking advantage of the fact that CloudFlare's free CDN can help speed up their sites by caching static content and distributing that content to CloudFlare's datacenters around the world....
August 03, 2011 2:31PM
CloudFlare and HostingCon
Events
Hosting Con
CloudFlare is going to be at HostingCon 2011 in San Diego from August 8 to August 10. The CloudFlare team is excited to meet our current partners and potential new partners at the show....
July 18, 2011 10:58PM
Cloudflare and E-commerce sites
eCommerce
Best Practices
We get a number of questions about using CloudFlare with e-commerce sites in customer service. CloudFlare works great at making e-commerce sites faster and protecting them against attacks. I thought I would try to address many of the key questions....
July 13, 2011 10:40PM
CloudFlare's Free CDN and You
Speed & Reliability
Cache
CloudFlare gets a lot of questions about caching and our free CDN (content delivery network), so I thought I would put together a really quick guide about what CloudFlare caches and more....
April 21, 2011 5:52PM
Using the CloudFlare API to pull visitor IPs
Analytics
API
Many of our customers love CloudFlare's statistics report because the information available differs from other services providing analytics.
One frequent request is that customers would like to be able to look at the individual IP hits coming to their site....
April 14, 2011 6:57PM
Using the CloudFlare API to report spam on your site back to CloudFlare
WordPress
API
CloudFlare loves threat data. CloudFlare's sytem continually gets smarter through a variety of ways, including through user-reported data. So for example, users can add IP and IP ranges to their Block List. This information is fed back to the CloudFlare system benefiting the entire community....
April 07, 2011 8:20PM
The CloudFlare Drupal Extension
Drupal
WordPress
Community
A Drupal developer, Brian Stevenson, recently created a CloudFlare Drupal extension that will help Drupal site owners get the original visitor IP at the Drupal level. Some common FAQs about the CloudFlare Drupal Extension....
March 31, 2011 9:22PM
CloudFlare and Metallica 'Ride the Lightning'
Testimonials
Customers
A few weeks ago, Metallica signed up for the CloudFlare service. I reached out to the network admin to find out why Metallica decided to use CloudFlare, and this is what he had to say....
March 16, 2011 1:31AM
Introducing the CloudFlare Joomla Extension
Joomla
Beta
Community
The CloudFlare team takes a great deal of pride in listening to the feedback of our users. We're pleased to announce that we recently released a beta version of our CloudFlare Joomla extension that will help you get the most out of using Joomla and CloudFlare together....
March 02, 2011 12:02AM
CloudFlare Adds Multiple Language Support
CAPTCHA
Community
CloudFlare, with the help of many of our community members, has recently added support for 8 additional
languages on the CloudFlare challenge page....
February 25, 2011 5:40PM
Cloudflare Tips: Using Cloudflare for your forums
Best Practices
Ninjas
Events
ForumCon attracted forum owners from all over the world and we got to meet a lot of interesting people. Some of the key things we heard was that unlike other types of websites, forums had to have the ability for its members to post comments and connect in real-time....