August 07, 2012 11:14PM
Elliot Noss from Tucows announces Ting
Hosting Con
As president and CEO of Tucows Inc., Elliot leads the company's business strategy and vision. He is responsible for overseeing operations for the company's domain registration, domain portfolio, email and retail lines of business....
August 07, 2012 7:16PM
"We never sit still" - Jack Zubarev from Parallels
Parallels
Hosting Con
Jack Zubarev is a founder and President of Parallels. Since the company's founding, he has held multiple leadership roles within the company, including running the Marketing and Alliances teams, COO, Division President, sales engineering, product marketing, and business development....
August 07, 2012 12:45AM
Ben Metcalfe from WP Engine weighs in on a new breed of hosting, using social media for support, and how he missed out on @ben
WordPress
Hosting Con
Ben Metcalfe is the definition of an Internet professional. With more than 11 years industry experience under his belt, Ben has previously spent time working on the development of MySpace and websites at the BBC....
August 06, 2012 7:47PM
Chris Sheridan from eNom talks predictions for 2013 and Jersey Shore
Hosting Con
Chris Sheridan, Vice President of Business Development at eNom, has been in the domain and hosting business since 1998. Chris has spent the past five and a half years at eNom focusing on retail sales, reseller sales and business development....
August 06, 2012 3:06PM
Mars Attacks!
Reliability
Speed & Reliability
Attacks
DDoS
Following on from my recent post about when attacks hit CloudFlare, here's a follow up looking at where they come from. Or at least where they say they come from. Looking at attack statistics for the month of July 2012 the largest source of attacks is Mars....
August 05, 2012 8:33PM
Always Online v.2
Reliability
Cache
Always Online
Product News
Project Honey Pot
The video on CloudFlare's home page promises that we will keep your web page online "even if your server goes down." It's a feature we dubbed "Always Online" and, when it works, it's magical. The problem is, Always Online doesn't always work....
August 03, 2012 4:06PM
The Wednesday Witching Hour: CloudFlare DoS Statistics
DDoS
Attacks
Reliability
Data from inside CloudFlare's network shows that over 40% of the time there's a denial of service attack happening and directed at us. And that's just up to network layer 4 (i.e. it doesn't include more sophisticated attacks targeting applications themselves at layer 7)....
August 03, 2012 5:43AM
Toronto, Canada: CloudFlare's 18th Data Center
Canada
FCC
Data Center
Legal
Cloudflare Network
North America
Last week we turned up three new data centers in Sydney, Atlanta, and Seattle. This week we are launching the next location to continue to expand CloudFlare's global network. Our ops team just put the final touches on our latest North American facility in Toronto, Canada....
August 02, 2012 11:34PM
SPDY Now One-Click Simple for Any Website
Chrome
Firefox
spdy
Speed & Reliability
About a month and a half ago, CloudFlare announced limited support for SPDY as part of a private beta. SPDY is the new protocol pioneered by Google to make the web faster. If you're curious, we've written about what makes SPDY speedy in previous blog posts....
August 01, 2012 6:17PM
CloudFlare (aka. KickassDNS)
Speed & Reliability
DNS
One of the things we don't talk about much at CloudFlare is how we've built one of the largest, fastest, easiest, and most resilient authoritative DNS networks in the world....
July 31, 2012 2:58PM
CloudFlare’s Newest App Partner: Verelo
Cloudflare Apps
Monitoring
A group of CloudFlare customers have recently been testing Velero during a silent launch, testing our latest app integration. Deployment has been very successful and with over 100 CloudFlare customers using Verelo....
July 31, 2012 1:25AM
App: Infolinks Earns You Money With In-Text Ads
Cloudflare Apps
Advertising
At CloudFlare, we're interested in making running a website easier. That's a broad definition, on purpose, going far beyond security and performance. If your goal is making money from your website, we want to make that easier, too....
July 27, 2012 4:17AM
Seattle: CloudFlare's 17th Data Center
Data Center
Cloudflare Network
USA
North America
Pacific Northwest
Our ops team is on a roll! Hot on the heels of Sydney and Atlanta going live yesterday, we're happy to announce Seattle, Washington as the location of CloudFlare's 17th data center....
July 26, 2012 4:55PM
HostingCon: The Launch of our Optimized Hosting Partners program, Railgun Nerf guns, Limos, Breakfast and much more!
Events
Hosting Con
SWAG
Team CloudFlare had an incredible time at HostingCon last week - thanks to everyone for dropping by and chatting with us! We loved catching up with many of our existing partners and meeting potential new ones....
July 26, 2012 4:46AM
Atlanta: CloudFlare's 16th Data Center
Data Center
Cloudflare Network
USA
North America
We're not slowing down! Just a few hours ago we launched Sydney, Australia as CloudFlare's 15th data center. Now our ops team just threw the switch and turned on Atlanta, Georgia as CloudFlare's 16th. I told you to stay tuned!...
July 25, 2012 11:40PM
Sydney, Australia: CloudFlare's 15th Data Center
Cloudflare Network
Data Center
Australia
Oceania
Over the next few weeks, CloudFlare will be significantly expanding our global network. In total, we'll be adding 9 new data centers and doubling the size of our existing facility in London....
July 14, 2012 6:51AM
Introducing: Single File Cache Purge
Cache
Free
Product News
Speed & Reliability
CloudFlare has supported a way to purge your cache for the last year. Unfortunately, it was all or nothing. While that, for practical purposes, didn't cause a significant performance hit for most websites....
July 13, 2012 10:47PM
Thoughts on Abuse
Malware
Abuse
One of the behind the scenes topics we think about a lot at CloudFlare is how to handle abuse of our network. I realized that we hadn't exposed our thoughts on this clearly enough. In the next few days, we'll be making some minor updates to our Terms of Service....
July 13, 2012 5:26PM
CloudFlare Heads to HostingCon 2012
Events
Hosting Con
Railgun
CloudFlare is going to be at HostingCon 2012 in Boston from Sunday, July 15th to Wednesday, July 18th. We are excited to see our current partners and meet potential new partners at the show! Our team is looking forward to an extremely busy conference....
July 05, 2012 8:17AM
Stop worrying about Time To First Byte (TTFB)
Speed & Reliability
Time To First Byte is often used as a measure of how quickly a web server responds to a request and common web testing services report it. The faster it is the better the web server (in theory). But the theory isn't very good....