Edinburgh: 139th Cloudflare city
2018-03-23
Our newest data center in Edinburgh expands our current total to 139 cities globally with a Cloudflare deployment. It also brings our UK total to 3 cities, after London and Manchester....
Cebu City, Philippines: Cloudflare's 138th Data Center
2018-03-23
Cebu 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. ...
Data-driven development with Cloudflare Mobile SDK
2018-03-22
How much engagement are you losing in your app to network errors? Chances are, you don't know. We didn't either, until we built a free tool that helps Android and iOS developers visualize and understand their mobile app's network utilization. ...
Cloudflare Global Network Spans 137 Cities: Launching Durban and Port Louis Data Centers
2018-03-20
Our newest data centers in Durban and Port Louis expand the Cloudflare network to 137 cities globally. We are delighted to reach this special milestone, and even more excited to help improve the performance and security of over 7 million Internet properties (and growing!) across 69 countries. ...
Tel Aviv, Israel: Cloudflare's 135th Data Center Now Live!
2018-03-15
Our newest data center is now live in Tel Aviv, Israel! This expands our global network even further to span 135 cities across 68 countries. Although Israel will only be turning 70 this year, it has a history so rich we’ll leave it to the textbooks. ...
Mexico City, Mexico: Cloudflare Data Center #134
2018-03-14
Mexicans! Long Live Mexico! Long Live Mexico! Long Live Mexico! No, its not the 16th of September (Mexico Independence Day). However at Cloudflare we are proud to introduce our Datacenter #134 located in Mexico City Mexico. This data center marks our entrance into the Aztec Nation. ...
Five new Cloudflare data centers across the United States
2018-03-14
When Cloudflare launched, three of the original five cities in our network were located in the United States. Since then, we have grown the breadth of the global network considerably to span 66 countries, and even added expanded the US footprint to twenty five locations....
Baghdad, Iraq: Cloudflare's 128th Data Center
2018-03-14
Cloudflare's newest data center is located in Baghdad, Iraq, in the region often known as the cradle of civilization. This expands our growing Middle East presence, while serving as our 45th data center in Asia, and 128th data center globally....
IBM Cloud, Now Powered by Cloudflare
2018-03-14
Founded in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR), IBM was renamed "International Business Machines" in 1924. 107 years later, IBM is one of 30 companies included in today’s Dow Jones Industrial Average and is one of the world's largest employers, with more than 380,000 employees. ...
Everyone can now run JavaScript on Cloudflare with Workers
2018-03-13
Product NewsCloudflare WorkersJavaScriptSpeed & ReliabilityCompressionDevelopersServerlessDeveloper Platform
We believe the true dream of cloud computing is that your code lives in the network itself. Your code doesn't run in "us-west-4", it runs everywhere....
Deprecating TLS 1.0 and 1.1 on api.cloudflare.com
2018-03-12
On June 4, Cloudflare will be dropping support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 on api.cloudflare.com. Additionally, the dashboard will be moved from www.cloudflare.com/a to dash.cloudflare.com and will require a browser that supports TLS 1.2 or higher....
Macau: Cloudflare Data Center 127
2018-03-09
Cloudflare'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. ...
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Cloudflare Data Center #126
2018-03-08
We are very excited to announce Cloudflare’s 126th data center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (only hours after launching in Reykjavík!). This joins our existing Middle East facilities to provide even stronger coverage and resilience for over 7 million Internet users....
Reykjavík, Cloudflare’s northernmost location
2018-03-07
Iceland is a small country in Northern Europe, a land of active volcanoes and boiling hot geysers. The geology and climate creates unique conditions for running compute power. ...
NAT To Be Missed At SXSW
2018-03-06
We’re at the EDGE of our seats, about to LANd in Austin, Texas in route for SXSW. (TKIP, hip, hooray!) ARP you going to be there? We R going to have three epoch sessions by Cloudflare speakers. ...
The real cause of large DDoS - IP Spoofing
2018-03-06
A week ago we published a story about new amplification attacks using memcached protocol on UDP port 11211. A few things happened since then: Github announced it was a target of 1.3Tbps memcached attack. OVH and Arbor reported similar large attacks with the peak reported at 1.7Tbps. ...
HTTP Analytics for 6M requests per second using ClickHouse
2018-03-06
One of our large scale data infrastructure challenges here at Cloudflare is around providing HTTP traffic analytics to our customers. HTTP Analytics is available to all our customers via two options:...
Istanbul (not Constantinople): Cloudflare’s 124th Data Center
2018-03-06
Cloudflare is excited to turn up our newest data center in Istanbul, Turkey. This is our 124th data center globally (and 62nd country), and it is throwing a curveball in our data center by continent tracking. Istanbul is the only city in the world to span two continents: Europe and Asia. ...
Squeezing the firehose: getting the most from Kafka compression
2018-03-05
How Cloudflare was able to save hundreds of gigabits of network bandwidth and terabytes of storage from Kafka....
Memcrashed - Major amplification attacks from UDP port 11211
2018-02-27
Over last couple of days we've seen a big increase in an obscure amplification attack vector - using the memcached protocol, coming from UDP port 11211. In the past, we have talked a lot about amplification attacks happening on the internet. ...