March 28, 2012 6:14PM
CloudFlare is Now Part of the Hong Kong Internet Exchange (HKIX)
Hong Kong
Peering
Speed & Reliability
Speed
Cloudflare Network
CloudFlare is now connected to HKIX (Hong Kong Internet Exchange). HKIX is the largest Internet Exchange in Asia transferring around 200Gbit to its 160 ISP, Carrier and Content networks....
March 21, 2012 2:53PM
App: Zoompf Performance Report Helps You Find And Fix Performance Issues
Cloudflare Apps
Speed & Reliability
Zoompf is a cloud-based tool for on-demand web performance testing and optimization. We're pleased to be able to offer their robust Zoompf Performance Report as a CloudFlare App for a one-time fee of just $5....
March 20, 2012 9:56PM
The CloudFlare Story
Our History
Life @ Cloudflare
Events
We are frequently asked by customers, media, friends and peers the story of how CloudFlare started. Next week, CloudFlare co-founders Matthew Prince, Michelle Zatlyn, and Lee Holloway will tell this story first hand at the Harvard Club of San Francisco's Founders Series....
March 09, 2012 11:06PM
Launching at SXSW? Use CloudFlare to Stay Online!
SXSW
Panel Picker
Events
A bunch of us from CloudFlare are packing up to head to Austin over the next 24 hours for SXSW, the interactive, music, and film festival. We've been supporters of SXSW for a while and helped the festival's panel picker stay online under the crushing load....
March 09, 2012 7:12PM
Cloudflare Tips: Recommended Steps for New Users
IPv6
Cloudflare Apps
Tips
Page Rules
Onboarding
CloudFlare's core value is that we speed up and protect any website. For new and current users, we wanted to pull together a handy guide that helps you get the most out of CloudFlare....
March 09, 2012 2:27AM
Come Meet Team CloudFlare at SXSW
SXSW
Panel Picker
JavaScript
CloudFlare has been a big supporter of SXSW. This summer, when the Interactive, Film, and Music festival opened its Panel Picker for submissions, CloudFlare helped keep it online under the flood of ensuing traffic. A bunch of folks from team CloudFlare are headed to Austin....
March 01, 2012 5:15AM
CloudFlare Now Supporting More Ports
Plesk
Product News
CloudFlare protects and accelerates web traffic. As a result, we initially only proxied traffic for the two main web ports: 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS). One of the top customer service questions we receive is: "Why did my control panel stop working after I signed up?"...
February 27, 2012 1:57AM
How to Enable SSL on Tumblr, WordPress, Blogger, AppEngine, Posterous & More...
WordPress
UPDATES: SSL is now included on all Plans, and Tumblr is no longer compatible with CloudFlare. The number of services today that allow you to quickly get online is stunning....
February 24, 2012 4:08PM
Post Mortem: The Ugly, the Bad & the Good
Post Mortem
DNS
Last night was not our finest hour. Around 07:30 GMT, we were finishing up a push of a new DNS infrastructure. The core of what this new update was built to do is make DNS updates even faster....
February 24, 2012 12:55AM
Social Media and Community Management Meetup
Cloudflare Meetups
Events
Community
We're excited to announce that we are hosting a Social Media and Community Management meetup at the CloudFlare HQ in San Francisco on Thursday, March 1....
February 22, 2012 6:24PM
Introducing Page Rules: Advanced Caching (Including Configurable HTML Caching)
Page Rules
Product News
Speed & Reliability
Cache
On Monday, CloudFlare officially announced Page Rules. The new feature allows you to customize behavior on a page-by-page basis. The previous two blog posts have outlined how you can turn off CloudFlare's features based on URL patterns, or accomplish advanced URL forwarding....
February 21, 2012 6:47PM
Introducing Page Rules: URL Forwarding
Google
Page Rules
In the last blog post, I introduced Page Rules and showed how you could use it to control CloudFlare's features like Apps, Performance, and Security settings on a page-by-page basis. Here I'm going to explain how you can use the same Page Rules interface to enable URL forwarding....
February 20, 2012 11:57PM
Introducing Page Rules: Fine Grained Control over CloudFlare's Features
Product News
Page Rules
DNS
Speed & Reliability
Reliability
CloudFlare is provisioned by DNS. That means that, from the beginning, you've been able to turn CloudFlare on or off on a subdomain level. From the CloudFlare DNS Manager. Often, however, users have wanted finer-grained control....
February 17, 2012 10:46PM
CloudFlare Is a Community
Growth
Community
Milestones
Our History
Today, CloudFlare adds more than 250 customers every ~6 hours, but getting our first 250 took several months and a lot of faith. When we started working on CloudFlare, an employee at a major CDN company warned us that we had no idea all the crazy things people did with their websites....
February 08, 2012 9:40PM
CloudFlare at Parallels Summit
Events
Florida
CloudFlare is going to be at the Parallels Summit in Orlando next week, February 14-16. We are offering complimentary limousine transfers from the Orlando International Airport (MCO) to the Gaylord Palms Resort. Ride in style and reserve your spot today!...
February 03, 2012 3:58AM
CloudFlare's Miami Data Center Now Online
Data Center
Cloudflare Network
Florida
United States
North America
We're happy to announce that CloudFlare's Miami data center is now online. Our 14th data center has been in the works for some time now. The new facility, which is among our largest, will serve much of Central and South America....
February 02, 2012 5:15AM
CloudFlare Helping IPv6 Reach Escape Velocity
IPv6
Save The Web
Events
On January 26, we joined the "World IPv6 Launch" being organized by The Internet Society. If you haven't heard about it, it is an effort to encourage companies commit to "permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services" by 6 June 2012....
January 26, 2012 11:33PM
TODAY Show Traffic Spike No Problem For Khataland
eCommerce
Testimonials
Customers
Reliability
Today comes every day. But promotion on the TODAY Show comes along rarely, if at all. The TODAY Show is the top morning TV show in America, with more than 5 million viewers each day....
January 16, 2012 11:50PM
Introducing CloudFlare's Stop Censorship App
Cloudflare Apps
SEO
Freedom of Speech
Legal
CloudFlare, as a service, illustrates the power of using DNS to make the Internet better. Unfortunately, some current legislation up for consideration in the United States illustrates the power of using DNS to make the Internet worse....
January 12, 2012 10:42PM
CloudFlare Expanding the IPv6 Web
IPv6
Save The Web
Product News
IPv4
Milestones
We regularly monitor the Alexa top 1 million websites for trends. Specifically, we've been tracking how many of them support IPv6 connections. The numbers are still low but have been improving....