2012-12-31
We spend a lot of time at CloudFlare thinking about how to make the Internet fast on mobile devices. Currently there are over 1.2 billion active mobile users and that number is growing rapidly....
2012-12-22
We enjoy working with companies who share a focus on website security. When GamaSec, an online web vulnerability-assessment service, inquired about ways to integrate...
2012-12-21
To solve that problem CloudFlare came up with a delta compression technique that recognizes that even dynamically-generated or personalized pages change only a little over time or between users....
2012-12-21
Looking at the latest DDoS attack statistics from CloudFlare's network, it seems that hackers love the holidays....
2012-12-17
Forecasters have estimated that online holiday shopping will account for almost 25 percent of total ecommerce sales in 2012. That's more than $54 Billion dollars in online transactions....
2012-12-12
More than a year ago, Ryan Kirkman and Thomas Davis approached us about a project they were working on. Dubbed CDNJS, the project had a noble goal: make the world's Javascript resources load as fast as possible....
2012-12-11
A little over a month ago, we published a couple of blog posts about how we were making SSL faster. Specifically, we enabled OCSP stapling across our network....
2012-12-10
Almost every website needs a privacy policy. In most countries, it's legally required, and it helps build trust with visitors. ...
2012-12-08
At CloudFlare, Nginx is at the core of what we do. It is part of the underlying foundation of our reverse proxy service. In addition to the built-in Nginx functionalities, we use an array of custom C modules......
2012-12-06
With the widespread adoption of high bandwidth Internet connections in the home, offices and on mobile devices, limitations in available bandwidth to download web pages have largely been eliminated....
2012-12-04
In early October we quietly announced our partnership with Parallels, a global leader in hosting, cloud services enablement and desktop virtualization....
2012-12-01
Syria has reestablished partial connectivity to the Internet. The following map of BGP connectivity shows Syria's 29386 network connected to multiple networks outside Syria....
2012-11-29
Today, 29 November 2012, between 1026 and 1028 (UTC), all traffic from Syria to the rest of the Internet stopped. At CloudFlare, we witnessed the drop off. We've spent the morning studying the situation to understand what happened. ...
2012-11-28
We've been thinking about how to best implement two-factor authentication to better protect our customers' accounts for quite some time now. When, about 6 months ago, my account was targeted by hackers the importance of a good account security became clear. ...
2012-11-28
With web performance and security being the core of CloudFlare, we are always looking for ways to improve not just our customers' website security, but their account security as well. Therefore, we are excited to now offer two-factor authentication for all CloudFlare accounts....
2012-11-27
There is a significant conflict in the Middle East. As has been widely reported, along with the physical confrontation between the Israelis and Palestinians, there have been widespread cyber attacks....
2012-11-19
We get a lot of questions from our customers about CloudFlare and how we impact SEO. So when SEO.com signed up for CloudFlare, I thought it would be a great opportunity to talk to an expert to get the scoop on all things SEO. ...
2012-11-18
It's no secret that CloudFlare has adopted Go for some production systems; we've written about our use of Go in the past. But over time it's become clear to us that Go is an important language for the sort of high-performance, highly-concurrent software we have to write....
2012-11-09
Each day I get to trade notes with CloudFlare customers. I'm constantly amazed by the diversity of businesses that use the service from around the world. I wanted to share some stories from some of our customers about their experience on CloudFlare....
2012-11-08
We are looking forward to co-hosting a meetup next week on Wednesday, November 14, with Braintree, the fastest growing payments platform for online and mobile commerce. ...
