December 10, 2012 10:16PM

Almost every website needs a privacy policy. In most countries, it's legally required, and it helps build trust with visitors....

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  John Roberts

December 08, 2012 8:46PM

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......

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  Matthieu Tourne

December 06, 2012 9:19AM

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....

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  John Graham-Cumming

December 04, 2012 10:01PM

In early October we quietly announced our partnership with Parallels, a global leader in hosting, cloud services enablement and desktop virtualization....

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  Maria Karaivanova

December 01, 2012 3:35PM

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....

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  John Graham-Cumming

November 29, 2012 8:13PM

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....

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  Matthew Prince

November 28, 2012 8:21PM

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....

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  Matthew Prince

November 28, 2012 5:05PM

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....

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  Kristin Tarr

November 27, 2012 11:49PM

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....

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  Matthew Prince

November 19, 2012 9:26PM

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....

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  Kristin Tarr

November 18, 2012 12:35AM

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....

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  John Graham-Cumming

November 09, 2012 7:32PM

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....

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  Kristin Tarr

November 08, 2012 9:45PM

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....

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  Kristin Tarr

November 07, 2012 11:06AM

We're having a CloudFlare London Meetup tomorrow night (Thursday, November 8). Three CloudFlare employees will be there: Dane, John and Ian. Come have a beer and exchange ideas with the CloudFlare crew at the Old Coffee House on Beak St....

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  John Graham-Cumming

November 06, 2012 9:09AM

Today, 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....

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  Tom Paseka

November 02, 2012 8:19PM

CloudFlare is based in San Francisco, California, USA but we serve a global audience. Every minute of every day we send and receive traffic from nearly all of the world's networks....

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  Matthew Prince

November 01, 2012 4:34PM

Earlier this week we announced how CloudFlare enabled OCSP stapling in order to improve our customers' SSL performance. OCSP stapling is awesome and improves SSL performance by as much as 30%. However, it is limited to browsers that support OCSP stapling and only benefits CloudFlare's customers....

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  Matthew Prince

October 31, 2012 1:04AM

Now that Hurricane Sandy has passed and the flood waters have begun to recede, we wanted to recap what we saw over the last 24 hours across the CloudFlare network....

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  Matthew Prince

October 30, 2012 7:54AM

A few weeks ago I wrote about DNS Amplification Attacks. These attacks are some of the largest, as measured by the number of Gigabits per second (Gbps), that we see directed toward our network....

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  Matthew Prince

October 29, 2012 5:54PM

This week CloudFlare is announcing several things we're doing to significantly improve the performance of SSL. Too few sites are secured with SSL. One of the reasons sites don't implement SSL is that it can slow down web performance....

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  Matthew Prince