February 22, 2013 9:12PM
Good Web Security News: Open DNS Resolvers Are Getting Closed
Reliability
OpenDNS
DNS
DDoS
This has been a rough week in the security industry with big attacks and compromises reported at companies from Facebook to Apple....
February 14, 2013 1:29AM
When the Attackers Name Malware After You, You Know You're Doing Something Right
I'm Under Attack Mode
Malware
Reliability
Cloudflare History
CloudFlare's I'm Under Attack Mode (IUAM) is elegantly simple. When a site is under an application layer (Layer 7) distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, the mode will return a challenge page to a visitor....
February 08, 2013 5:08AM
Facebook Bug Redirects the Web Through Javascript Widget Error
Rocket Loader
Speed & Reliability
You may have heard that Facebook took down a significant portion of the Internet today. A bug in their Facebook Connect script caused users to be redirected to a Facebook error page....
February 04, 2013 2:26PM
New "Lucky Thirteen" SSL Vulnerabilities: CloudFlare Users Protected
TLS
SSL
Vulnerabilities
Security
CloudFlare often gets early word of new vulnerabilities before they are released. Last week we got word that today (Monday, February 4, 2013) there would be a new SSL vulnerability announced....
February 01, 2013 10:27PM
Edge Cache Expire TTL: Easiest way to override any existing headers
Cache
TTL
Speed & Reliability
CloudFlare makes caching easy. Our service automatically determines what files to cache based on file extensions. Performance benefits kick in automatically....
January 18, 2013 9:23AM
WordPress London Meetup January 2013
Cloudflare Meetups
WordPress
Always Online
Rocket Loader
Product News
Speed & Reliability
United Kingdom
Community
Last night I gave a short presentation about how to use CloudFlare with WordPress sites to about 60 people attending the WordPress London Meetup. CloudFlare was happy to be sponsor of the event providing drinks, beers and lots and lots of pizza. The meetup was held at the Google Campus....
January 17, 2013 5:54PM
CloudFlare Heading to Parallels Summit 2013
Events
Parallels
Cloudflare History
CloudFlare is heading to Parallels Summit in Las Vegas on Monday, February 4th to Wednesday, February 6th. We look forward to meeting and reconnecting with service providers and providing complimentary limo rides between the airport and the Caesars Palace hotel....
January 11, 2013 2:27AM
Today's System-Wide Upgrade
Network
Cloudflare History
Today from 21:00 - 23:00 UTC CloudFlare scheduled a maintenance window. During that time, CloudFlare's interface was offline. While it was only two hours of time (and we finished a bit early, at 22:16 UTC) what went on during that window had been in the works for several months....
January 09, 2013 6:55PM
App: Clearspike automates search engine optimization
Cloudflare Apps
SEO
You care about your website, and you want it to be found. For many visitors, finding your website starts with search engines. Together, Google, Bing, Baidu and others are huge sources of traffic for every website....
January 07, 2013 5:38AM
CloudFlare: Fastest Free DNS, Among Fastest DNS Period
Speed & Reliability
RRDNS
DNS
Speed
CloudFlare runs one of the largest networks of DNS servers in the world. Over the last few months, we've invested in making our DNS as fast and responsive as possible. We were happy to see these efforts pay off in third-party DNS test results....
January 01, 2013 2:14AM
CloudFlare's 2012: Happy New Year!
Save The Web
Growth
Cloudflare History
For about half the world (and about half of CloudFlare's data centers) it's already 2013. As our team (most of whom are in San Francisco) get ready to celebrate New Year's Eve, wanted to quickly look back on CloudFlare's 2012....
December 31, 2012 12:29AM
Optimizing Your Linux Stack for Maximum Mobile Web Performance
Mobile
TCP
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....
December 22, 2012 12:19AM
App: GamaSec Web Application Security and Vulnerability Scanning
Cloudflare Apps
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...
December 21, 2012 10:50AM
Railgun in the real world: faster web page load times
Speed & Reliability
Railgun
Speed
Product News
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....
December 21, 2012 3:41AM
Hackers love the holidays
Holidays
Attacks
DDoS
Reliability
Looking at the latest DDoS attack statistics from CloudFlare's network, it seems that hackers love the holidays....
December 17, 2012 10:59PM
It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year...For Ecommerce Sites
eCommerce
Holidays
Customers
Speed & Reliability
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....
December 12, 2012 6:35PM
CDNJS: The Fastest Javascript Repo on the Web
JavaScript
Speed & Reliability
CDNJS
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....
December 11, 2012 5:24PM
What We Just Did to Make SSL Even Faster
OCSP
Speed & Reliability
HTTPS
SSL
Security
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....
December 10, 2012 10:16PM
App: iubenda generates fast, easy, simple privacy policies
Cloudflare Apps
Almost every website needs a privacy policy. In most countries, it's legally required, and it helps build trust with visitors....
December 08, 2012 8:46PM
Pushing Nginx to its limit with Lua
NGINX
LUA
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......