CloudFlare's LA Data Center Now Online!
2011-04-25
We just turned on our latest data center in Los Angeles. In its first minute, the facility processed more than 30,000 requests. We expect that number to rise over the next 24 hours. ...
Smarter Web Security, With Your Help
2011-04-05
Good security depends on having a lot of information and being able to react to it quickly. One of the problems with traditional web security has been that it relies on installing an appliance or software. ...
CloudFlare Loft Party
2011-03-12
Last week the CloudFlare team opened our new San Francisco office to our users and friends for an open house / loft party. We had The Peelers, a terrific local mashup band, entertain the crowd while everyone sipped drinks and snacked on great food from San Francisco street cart vendors....
Meet the (Sometimes Goofy) CloudFlare Team
2011-03-09
CloudFlare launched to the public at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference on September 27, 2010. We were named the Most Innovative Company at the conference and came in second in the overall competition. Recently we were invited by TechCrunch to write an update on what's happened since our launch....
CloudFlare Keeps Groundhog Day Online!
2011-02-03
Today is Groundhog Day: the day on which a groundhog (named Phil) crawls out of his hole in Punxsutawney, PA and either sees his shadow, meaning we're in for six more weeks of winter, or does not, in ...
What Egypt Shutting Down the Internet Looks Like
2011-01-29
CloudFlare gets quite a bit of traffic from Egypt -- the country is consistently in the top-20 originators of visitors to our network. That is, until last night when Egypt shut down the Internet. Here is a graph showing traffic to our network from Egypt. ...
API: How To Build CloudFlare Into Your Web Apps
2011-01-19
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.......
New IPs + New Year = Big Stuff to Come!
2011-01-01
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)...
CloudFlare, Now With Faster Stats!
2010-12-17
We generate a lot of logs. To give you some sense, across the CloudFlare network every minute we write a half a Gigabyte of just log data. Collecting, reducing, sorting, and displaying that data back to you is one of the biggest challenges of running a service like CloudFlare....
Always Online: Because Downtime Sucks
2010-12-06
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. ...
1 Billion Requests Served
2010-10-10
ICloudflare passed a big milestone yesterday: over the last 30 days we've served more than 1 billion requests. The Cloudflare network is architected to handle many, many times this level traffic, but it's still pretty amazing to realize the extent of what already powering....
Reflections on TechCrunch Disrupt Launch
2010-10-04
When Michelle, Lee, and I started working on Cloudflare back in the Winter of 2009 the plan was always to launch at TechCrunch. ...
Introducing Igor, Alex, Phil, Isla, and Vera: Five of Our Ninja Nameservers
2010-09-02
If you're a big enterprise and you want performance and security you buy an expensive piece of hardware and contract with a content delivery network or highly connected data center. For the vast majority of websites online, this simply isn't an option....
What's in a name?
2010-03-01
When Michelle, Lee and I started working on the business plan that turned into Cloudflare one of the first questions was what we should call it? We needed a placeholder so we initially chose "Project WebWall." ...
Cloudflare: Winner of the 2009 Harvard Business School Business Plan Competition
2009-04-28
We're excited to announce that we just got word that Cloudflare won the 2009 Harvard Business Plan competition. We're extremely excited and flattered by the recognition. The competition was a terrific experience for Michelle and me....