Introducing Argo — A faster, more reliable, more secure Internet for everyone
2017-05-18
The Internet is inherently unreliable, a collection of networks connected to each other with fiber optics, copper, microwaves and trust....
Introducing Load Balancing & Intelligent Failover with Cloudflare
2017-05-14
Cloudflare's Enterprise customers have been using our Load Balancing service since March, and it has been helping them avoid website downtime caused by unreliable hosting providers, Internet outages, or servers. ...
Detroit and San Diego Data Centers expand Cloudflare network to 26 North American cities
2017-05-12
Cloudflare is excited to announce deployments in Detroit and San Diego, which are our 114th and 115th data centers respectively. They join Colombo, Sri Lanka and Cape Town, South Africa....
Standing Up to a Dangerous New Breed of Patent Troll
2017-05-11
On March 20th, Cloudflare received our first patent infringement claim: Blackbird Tech LLC v. Cloudflare, Inc. Today we’re filing our Answer to that claim in a federal court in Delaware. ...
Project Jengo: Cloudflare's Prior Art Search Bounty
2017-05-11
As readers of this blog likely know, especially if you read this post, Cloudflare has been sued by a dangerous new breed of patent troll, Blackbird Technologies, asserting a very old and very vague patent. ...
Cape Town (South Africa): Cloudflare Data Center #113
2017-05-11
Back in December 2014, Cloudflare opened our first data center in Africa and our 30th datacenter globally. That was in Johannesburg, which has since seen over 10x growth in traffic delivered to South Africa and surrounding countries....
How Cloudflare analyzes 1M DNS queries per second
2017-05-10
On Friday, we announced DNS analytics for all Cloudflare customers. Because of our scale –– by the time you’ve finished reading this, Cloudflare DNS will have handled millions of DNS queries –– we had to be creative in our implementation. ...
Colombo, Sri Lanka: Six million Internet properties now faster for six million Internet users
2017-05-09
We are excited to add four new data centers this week to Cloudflare's growing network, beginning with Colombo, Sri Lanka. This deployment is our 112th data center globally, and our 38th in Asia. ...
Anonymity and Abuse Reports
2017-05-07
Last Thursday, ProPublica published an article critiquing our handling of some abuse reports that we receive. Feedback from the article caused us to reevaluate how we handle abuse reports. As a result, we've decided to update our abuse reporting system....
Meet The Brand New DNS Analytics Dashboard
2017-05-05
Have you noticed something new in your Cloudflare analytics dashboard this morning? You can now see detailed DNS analytics for your domains on Cloudflare....
Introducing the new Cloudflare Community Forum
2017-05-03
Cloudflare’s community of users is vast. With more than 6 million domains registered, our users come in all shapes and sizes and are located all over the world. ...
How eero mesh WiFi routers connect to the cloud
2017-05-03
Relying on a single wireless router to provide internet in every room of the home is like expecting a single light bulb to illuminate the entire house. It’s physics - WiFi radio waves don’t travel through walls or objects easily. ...
IoT Security Anti-Patterns
2017-05-02
From security cameras to traffic lights, an increasing amount of appliances we interact with on a daily basis are internet connected. A device can be considered IoT-enabled when the functionality offered by its Embedded System is exposed through an internet connected API....
Introducing TLS with Client Authentication
2017-05-01
In a traditional TLS handshake, the client authenticates the server, and the server doesn’t know too much about the client. However, starting now, Cloudflare is offering enterprise customers TLS with client authentication. ...
Upcoming Cloudflare events: Berlin May 5-7, Austin & Portland May 11
2017-04-28
Attending JS Conf EU, CSS Conf, or OSCON in the next couple of weeks? Live in Berlin or Austin or Portland? Come over and join Cloudflare devs in the area at our upcoming events. ...
Introducing Cloudflare Orbit: A Private Network for IoT Devices
2017-04-27
In October, we wrote about a 1.75M rps DDoS attack we mitigated on our network, launched by 52,467 unique IP’s, mostly hacked CCTV cameras. We continued to see more IoT devices in DDoS attacks....
Ecommerce websites on Cloudflare: best practices
2017-04-25
Cloudflare provides numerous benefits to ecommerce sites, including advanced DDOS protection and an industry-leading Web Application Firewall (WAF) that helps secure your transactions and protect customers’ private data....
AES-CBC is going the way of the dodo
2017-04-21
A little over a year ago, Nick Sullivan talked about the beginning of the end for AES-CBC cipher suites, following a plethora of attacks on this cipher mode....
Introducing SSL for SaaS
2017-04-19
If you’re running a SaaS company, you know how important it is that your application is performant, highly available, and hardened against attack. ...
Budapest (Hungary): Cloudflare Data Center #111
2017-04-18
Hot on the heels of several recent data center additions in Yerevan, Quito, Rome, Kansas City, Belgrade, Curacao, Djibouti and Munich, we are delighted to announce our newest deployment in Budapest, making six million websites even faster and safer across Hungary. ...