CloudFlare Now Supports WebSockets
2014-08-05
I'm pleased to announce that CloudFlare now supports WebSockets. The ability to protect and accelerate WebSockets has been one of our most requested features....
Experimenting with mozjpeg 2.0
2014-07-29
One of the services that CloudFlare provides to paying customers is called Polish. Polish automatically recompresses images cached by CloudFlare to ensure that they are as small as possible and can be delivered to web browsers as quickly as possible....
Listo! Medellin, Colombia: CloudFlare's 28th Data Center
2014-07-22
With the World Cup at an end, so too is our latest round of data center expansion. Following deployments in Madrid, Milan and São Paulo, we are thrilled to announce our 28th data center in Medellin, Colombia....
Courage to change things
2014-07-11
This was an internal email that I sent to the CloudFlare team about how we are not afraid to throw away old code. We thought it was worth sharing with a wider audience....
CloudFlare Joins Three More Peering Exchanges in Australia
2014-07-11
In the coming weeks, connectivity to CloudFlare in Australia is going to a new level. As part of CloudFlare’s ongoing upgrades program, we established connections to three new Internet exchanges: the Megaport Internet exchanges in Sydney, Brisbane, and Melbourne. ...
Introducing CFSSL - CloudFlare's PKI toolkit
2014-07-10
Today we’re proud to introduce CFSSL—our open source toolkit for everything TLS/SSL. CFSSL is used internally by CloudFlare for bundling TLS/SSL certificates chains, and for our internal Certificate Authority infrastructure....
ReplayLastGoal and CloudFlare: Fanning World Cup Flames
2014-07-08
The World Cup is, at once, exhilarating and agonizing, and not just for those lucky souls in Rio or Manaus, folks working from home, or anyone else sitting happily in front of a TV....
Parabéns, Brasil! CloudFlare's 27th Data Center Now Live
2014-07-07
Brazil is home to not only the most successful national football team in history (Pentacampeão), but also to the most technologically advanced World Cup ever hosted. ...
Introducing the BPF Tools
2014-07-03
In a recent article I described the basic concepts behind the use of Berkeley Packet Filter (aka BSD Packet filter or BPF) bytecode for high performance packet filtering, and the xt_bpf iptables module....
Making code better with reviews
2014-07-02
In the past we've written about how CloudFlare isn't afraid to rip out and replace chunks of code that have proved to be hard to maintain or have simply reach end of life. ...
Q&A with Ryan Lackey
2014-06-18
I started using the Internet when I was young—in the early 1990s, before I was a teenager. I was drawn to security for two main reasons....
CloudFlare Acquires CryptoSeal
2014-06-18
We're excited to announce that CloudFlare has acquired the Trusted Computing and virtual private network (VPN) as a service company CryptoSeal. ...
Buongiorno, Milano! CloudFlare’s 26th Data Center Now Live
2014-06-16
Italy is known for many great things. First and foremost, the Azzurri—2006 World Cup champions and (as of yesterday) dashers of England's world cup hopes—but also the Colosseum, the fountains of Florence, the canals of Venice, the Alps, and more....
CloudFlare's 25th data center turns up to ease collective disappointment of Spanish fútbol fans
2014-06-13
After a drubbing earlier today of La Roja by The Flying Dutchmen, we felt obliged to deliver at least one piece of good news to the 34 million fútbol loving Internet users in Spain: CloudFlare's 25th data center in Madrid, Spain....
New .uk domains now supported
2014-06-13
On the 10th of June, the UK domain registry Nominet made available second-level domain namespace to the public, allowing anyone to register a domain ending with simply .uk...
Naming Project Galileo
2014-06-12
Earlier today, CloudFlare announced Project Galileo to protect free speech on the Web by using its sophisticated anti-DDoS resources. ...
Protecting Free Expression Online
2014-06-12
Over the last few years, we’ve witnessed a troubling trend: an increasing number of politically or artistically important sites targeted by very large denial of service attacks. ...
Eliminating the last reasons to not enable IPv6
2014-06-05
Today is June 6. For the last two years, the date has been celebrated as World IPv6 Day. CloudFlare has offered full IPv6 support as well as our IPv6-to-IPv4 gateway since 2012....
Three years after World IPv6 Day
2014-06-05
It’s been over 1,000 days since the Internet Society’s World IPv6 Day and a lot of positive things have happened in that world of IPv6 content delivery. At CloudFlare we have not been sitting still either. ...
New OpenSSL vulnerabilities: CloudFlare systems patched
2014-06-05
The OpenSSL team announced seven vulnerabilities covering OpenSSL 0.9.8, 1.0.0, 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 (i.e. all versions) earlier today....