Manchester, UK: CloudFlare's 63rd data center
2015-10-06
Our new point of presence in Manchester, UK brings the CloudFlare network to 63 points of presence across 33 countries. In other words, the sun never sets across the CloudFlare network. ...
Happy 5th Birthday, CloudFlare!
2015-09-28
Today is September 27, 2015. It's a rare Super Blood Moon. And it's also CloudFlare's birthday. CloudFlare launched 5 years ago today. It was a Monday. While Michelle, Lee, and I had high expectations, we would never have imagined what's happened since then....
Mobile Ad Networks as DDoS Vectors: A Case Study
2015-09-25
CloudFlare servers are constantly being targeted by DDoS'es. We see everything from attempted DNS reflection attacks to L7 HTTP floods involving large botnets....
iOS 9 — How did the launch really go?
2015-09-22
On September 16 2015 at 10:00AM PST, Apple released their latest update to the iPhone: iOS 9. For several days after the announcement, ISPs and customers reported problems downloading iOS 9 due to overloaded servers....
Why we raised $110m from Fidelity, Google, Microsoft, Baidu and Qualcomm
2015-09-22
The past few years have been marked by tremendous growth for CloudFlare. At the time of our last fundraising in December 2012, CloudFlare was a team of 37 operating a network in 23 cities and 15 countries—today we number over 200 with a presence in 62 cities and 33 countries....
Announcing CloudFlare’s Internet Summit - And How to Get an Invitation
2015-09-17
Five years ago next week, CloudFlare launched its service to the public. We’re celebrating our birthday in a variety of ways, including holding our first-ever Internet Summit on Thursday, September 24th....
Cloudflare + WHMCS: faster websites for your customers
2015-09-16
We’re at the cPanel Conference in Denver this week, so feel free to drop by our booth and say hello. It’s a great opportunity to connect with our partners and better understand their needs....
How We Extended CloudFlare's Performance and Security Into Mainland China
2015-09-14
CloudFlare launched five years ago. Within a year of our launch, the biggest surprise was the strong global demand for our service. From nearly the beginning, China was the second largest source of traffic by country to our network, behind only the United States....
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: CloudFlare's 45th data center
2015-09-11
Kuala Lumpur joins the CloudFlare network as our 45th global point of presence (PoP). While this latest deployment comes only a day after the announcement of our expansion in Berlin (back-to-back!), it's been a long three years since we last crossed a new border in Asia. ...
Berlin, Germany: CloudFlare's 44th Data Center
2015-09-10
Our data center in Berlin is our 3rd in Germany following Frankfurt and Düsseldorf, 14th in Europe, and 44th globally. Berlin is of considerable importance not just because it is the capital of Europe's most populous country....
Weird bug of the day: Twitter in-app browser can't visit site
2015-09-08
We keep a close eye on tweets that mention CloudFlare because sometimes we get early warning about odd errors that we are not seeing ourselves through our monitoring systems. Towards the end of August we saw a small number of tweets like this one:...
Kernel bypass
2015-09-07
In two previous posts we've discussed how to receive 1M UDP packets per second and how to reduce the round trip time. We did the experiments on Linux and the performance was very good considering it's a general purpose operating system....
Test all the things: IPv6, HTTP/2, SHA-2
2015-09-02
CloudFlare constantly tries to stay on the leading edge of Internet technologies so that our customers' web sites use the latest, fastest, most secure protocols. For example, in the past we've enabled IPv6 and SPDY/3.1....
Simple Helix chooses CloudFlare to ignite white-hot Magento performance
2015-09-01
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. ...
Railgun v5 has landed: better, faster, lighter
2015-08-31
Three years ago we launched Railgun, CloudFlare's origin network optimizer. Railgun allows us to cache the uncacheable to accelerate the connection between CloudFlare and our customers' origin servers. ...
SXSW Interactive 2016: Vote for CloudFlare’s Submissions
2015-08-27
It’s that time of year again, when the end of summer is in sight, students are back in school, football is on TV again, and your social feeds are flooded with “vote for my panel at SXSW” updates. ...
Mombasa, Kenya: CloudFlare's 43rd data center
2015-08-27
Only two weeks after the announcement of our four new points of presence (PoPs) in the Middle East, it is with much hullabaloo that we announce our 43rd PoP, and second in Africa following Johannesburg, in Mombasa, Kenya (a.k.a. “The Castle”)....
Introducing a Powerful Way to Purge Cache on CloudFlare: Purge by Cache-Tag
2015-08-19
Today CloudFlare is introducing a new way to purge the cache using Cache-Tags. Cache-Tags are assigned to cached content via a Cache-Tag response header, and are stored as metadata with cached objects so that global purges take only seconds, targeting a granular, finite set of cached objects....
Ensuring the web is for everyone
2015-08-17
This is the text of an internal email I sent at CloudFlare that we thought worth sharing more widely. I annotated it a bit with links that weren't in the original....
Dear Internet, Send Us Your Videos
2015-08-14
CloudFlare turns 5 years old this September. It's been an amazing ride since our launch. Before we launched at TechCrunch Disrupt on September 27, 2010, we'd signed up about 1,000 beta customers. It took us nine months to get those first customers. ...