February 22, 2013 9:12PM

This has been a rough week in the security industry with big attacks and compromises reported at companies from Facebook to Apple....

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  Matthew Prince

February 14, 2013 1:29AM

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....

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  Matthew Prince

February 08, 2013 5:08AM

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....

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  Matthew Prince

February 04, 2013 2:26PM

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....

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  Matthew Prince

February 01, 2013 10:27PM

CloudFlare makes caching easy. Our service automatically determines what files to cache based on file extensions. Performance benefits kick in automatically....

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  Michelle Zatlyn

January 18, 2013 9:23AM

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....

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  John Graham-Cumming

January 17, 2013 5:54PM

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....

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  Kristin Tarr

January 11, 2013 2:27AM

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....

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  Matthew Prince

January 09, 2013 6:55PM

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....

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  John Roberts

January 07, 2013 5:38AM

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....

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  Matthew Prince

January 01, 2013 2:14AM

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....

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  Matthew Prince

December 31, 2012 12:29AM

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....

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  Matthew Prince

December 22, 2012 12:19AM

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...

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  Kristin Tarr

December 21, 2012 10:50AM

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....

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  John Graham-Cumming

December 21, 2012 3:41AM

Looking at the latest DDoS attack statistics from CloudFlare's network, it seems that hackers love the holidays....

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  John Graham-Cumming

December 17, 2012 10:59PM

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....

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  Kristin Tarr

December 12, 2012 6:35PM

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....

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  Matthew Prince

December 11, 2012 5:24PM

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....

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  Matthew Prince

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