January 05, 2022 4:14PM
How The Gambia lost access to the Internet for more than 8 hours
Cloudflare Radar Internet ShutdownOn the morning of January 4, 2022, citizens of The Gambia woke up to a country-wide Internet outage...
August 04, 2020 2:00PM
Cloudflare Network Interconnection partnerships launch
Better Internet Internet Exchange Internet Performance Magic Transit Bandwidth Alliance PartnersToday we’re excited to announce Cloudflare’s Network Interconnection Partner Program, in support of our new CNI product. As ever more enterprises turn to Cloudflare to secure and accelerate their branch and core networks, the ability to connect privately and securely becomes increasingly important....
November 15, 2018 5:22PM
How a Nigerian ISP Accidentally Knocked Google Offline
BGP Security Peering OutageLast Monday evening — 12 November 2018 — Google and a number of other services experienced a 74 minute outage. Incidents like this only serve to demonstrate just how much frailty is involved in how packets get from one point on the Internet to another....
September 12, 2018 4:37PM
Norfolk and Richmond, Virginia: Cloudflare's 152nd and 153rd cities
Cloudflare Network Data Center Virginia United StatesVirginia has a very important place in Internet history, as well as the history of Cloudflare’s network. Northern Virginia, in the area around Ashburn VA, has for a long time been core to Internet infrastructure....
July 19, 2018 1:03AM
IPv6 in China
IPv6 ChinaAt the end of 2017, Xinhua reported that there will be 200 Million IPv6 users inside Mainland China by the end of this year.. Halfway into the year, we’re seeing a rapid growth in IPv6 users and traffic originating from Mainland China....
March 23, 2018 2:07AM
Cebu City, Philippines: Cloudflare's 138th Data Center
March of Cloudflare Data Center Cloudflare NetworkCebu City, the second most populous metro area, but oldest city in the Philippines is the home of Cloudflare’s newest Data Center. Located centrally in the Philippines, Cebu has had a long standing tradition of trade and business activity, the word itself “Cebu” meaning trade....
March 09, 2018 1:00AM
Macau: Cloudflare Data Center 127
March of Cloudflare Data Center Cloudflare NetworkCloudflare's 127th data center is now live in Macau, helping make over 7 million Internet facing applications safer and faster. This is our 44th data center in Asia....
August 16, 2017 1:15AM
Power outage hits the island of Taiwan. Here’s what we learned.
Outage AsiaAt approximately 4:50pm local time (8:50am UTC) August 15, a major unexpected power outage hit the island of Taiwan with a significant amount of its power generation facilities going down....
November 06, 2012 9:09AM
Why Google Went Offline Today and a Bit about How the Internet Works
Network BGP Outage Google Reliability Tech Talks Deep DiveToday, 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....
March 28, 2012 6:14PM
CloudFlare is Now Part of the Hong Kong Internet Exchange (HKIX)
Hong Kong Peering Speed & Reliability Speed Cloudflare NetworkCloudFlare is now connected to HKIX (Hong Kong Internet Exchange). HKIX is the largest Internet Exchange in Asia transferring around 200Gbit to its 160 ISP, Carrier and Content networks....