Using Workers To Make Static Sites Dynamic
08/26/2018
The following is a guest post by Paddy Sherry, Lead Developer at Gambling.com Group. They build performance marketing websites and tools, using Cloudflare to serve to their global audience....
Integrating redirection.io with Cloudflare Workers
08/21/2018
Redirection.io is a Web traffic redirection manager. It provides a collection of tools for website administrators, SEO agencies, and developers, which help analyze HTTP errors, setup HTTP redirections, customize HTTP responses, and monitor the traffic efficiently....
How To Minikube + Cloudflare
07/08/2018
A step-by-step guide for how to run production Minikube deployments using the Cloudflare Ingress Controller....
A Solution to Compression Oracles on the Web
03/27/2018
Compression is often considered an essential tool when reducing the bandwidth usage of internet services. The impact that the use of such compression schemes can have on security, however, has often been overlooked. ...
Lessons learned from adapting Site Search 360 for Cloudflare Apps
01/27/2018
As a startup founder, there are always key product decisions to be made when Site Search 360, our key product, is embedded in one context versus another. I’d like to share some experiences, choices, and challenges in our process packaging Site Search 360 for Cloudflare Apps....
Inside the infamous Mirai IoT Botnet: A Retrospective Analysis
12/14/2017
This post provides a retrospective analysis of Mirai — the infamous Internet-of-Things botnet that took down major websites via massive distributed denial-of-service using hundreds of thousands of compromised Internet-Of-Things devices....
Releasing AddThis on Cloudflare Apps: Making Disciplined Product Design Decisions
11/22/2017
When our team learned about the opportunity to build an AddThis app on Cloudflare Apps, I was ready to pounce. ...
Helping to make LuaJIT faster
10/19/2017
Programming language Virtual Machines (VMs) are familiar beasts: we use them to run apps on our phone, code inside our browsers, and programs on our servers. ...
Understanding the prevalence of web traffic interception
09/12/2017
This post summarizes how prevalent encrypted web traffic interception is and how it negatively affects online security according to a study published at NDSS 2017 authored by several researchers including the author of this post and Nick Sullivan of Cloudflare. ...
How eero mesh WiFi routers connect to the cloud
05/03/2017
Relying on a single wireless router to provide internet in every room of the home is like expecting a single light bulb to illuminate the entire house. It’s physics - WiFi radio waves don’t travel through walls or objects easily. ...
NCC Group's Cryptography Services audits our Go TLS 1.3 stack
02/15/2017
The Cloudflare TLS 1.3 beta is run by a Go implementation of the protocol based on the Go standard library, crypto/tls. ...
Simple Helix chooses CloudFlare to ignite white-hot Magento performance
09/01/2015
Some months ago, we made a big bet on partnering with CloudFlare for performance improvements and website security for our Magento hosting customers. Customer experience is core to our business and relying on another company is a major deal. ...
EFF, CloudFlare Ask Federal Court Not To Force Internet Companies To Enforce Music Labels’ Trademarks
06/19/2015
This month, CloudFlare and EFF pushed back against major music labels’ latest strategy to force Internet infrastructure companies like CloudFlare to become trademark and copyright enforcers, by challenging a broad court order that the labels obtained in secret....
What do you do when the world’s attention is on you?
03/12/2014
This is a guest post from Rodney Gibbs. Rodney is the CIO of The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit media organization that covers public policy, politics, and government. ...
Introducing USV: CloudFlare's newest investor
12/17/2013
It's been an exciting day here at CloudFlare. We are happy to finally introduce our newest investors, Union Square Ventures. This blog post was written by Brad Burnham, Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures, and previously appeared on the USV blog....
How I created the viral sensation: isthegovernmentopen.com
10/04/2013
A few years ago, amidst the final crunch of a project deadline, a friend and former colleague looked me directly in the eye and said, "It's like I don't even know how to build a website anymore."...
Railgun Gives our Ecommerce Sites the Edge
07/15/2013
In March 2013, we started testing Railgun, and slowly rolled it out across our three web properties. We saw immediate results. First, we saw instant reductions in time to retrieve uncached HTML documents, and as an ecommerce web property every millisecond counts....
Dome9 + CloudFlare = Combined Security For Your Website and Web Server
06/27/2012
Dome9 is a new kind of security management service that protects your cloud or hosted server firewall, including all the admin services for all your server's applications (e.g., phpMyAdmin). It's a great complement to the web security that CloudFlare provides....
App: Trumpet Offers Simple, Consistent Notification to Site Visitors
06/26/2012
Say hello to Trumpet. Trumpet is a simple CloudFlare App that lets you place a short message on top of every page on your site. You turn it on, and when you want to tell your users something, you enter a message that will show up the next time the user loads your site....
A2 Hosting Guest Blog Post: CloudFlare and... Pizza???
03/16/2011
A guest post is by Brad Litwin at A2 Hosting, one of the CloudFlare Hosting partners. They asked to talk about how CloudFlare is helping their customers. Learn more about the CloudFlare hosting partner program....