October 16, 2011 9:08PM
Wall Street Journal: CloudFlare the Most Innovative Network & Internet Technology Company of 2011
Awards
We just got word that the Wall Street Journal named CloudFlare the Most Innovative Network & Internet Technology Company of 2011. The WSJ received more than 600 entries from companies in 31 countries around the world....
October 15, 2011 8:11PM
CloudFlare's Middle Earth Adventure
Life @ Cloudflare
Milestones
Retreat
Our History
In the summer of 2010, before CloudFlare's public launch, we took the team to Vegas to celebrate our first 100 websites. This summer, we crossed more than 100,000 websites using CloudFlare so we decided to head out on another team retreat....
October 05, 2011 11:57PM
App: Dome9 Automates Secure Access to Your Servers
Cloudflare Apps
CloudFlare protects your website, scrubbing your web traffic from unwanted visitors and attacks. But not all traffic to a server is web traffic. For instance, SSH, FTP and other administrative ports may be needed at different times....
October 03, 2011 3:30AM
Combining Javascript & CSS, a Better Way
JavaScript
Rocket Loader
CSS
Speed & Reliability
Product News
Speed
The conventional wisdom in web performance circles is that you want to combine multiple javascript and CSS files. The reason for this is that there is significant overhead every time you setup a new HTTP request. More requests, more wasted overhead....
September 27, 2011 9:45AM
Introducing CloudFlare's Automatic IPv6 Gateway
IPv6
Save The Web
IPv4
Our History
Birthday Week
Product News
Security
CloudFlare launched publicly exactly one year ago today. In that year, we have grown from virtually no traffic to powering more than 15 billion page views for 350 million unique visitors in the last month....
September 25, 2011 1:45AM
We Saved Users Half a Petabyte Last Month!
Data
Cache
Bandwidth
Milestones
Our History
I was just looking over our daily stats report and noticed something incredible. In the last 30 days, CloudFlare saved our users more than half a petabyte of data they would have otherwise had to transfer from their servers....
September 23, 2011 4:17PM
App: Blitz.io Makes Performance and Load Testing Easy
Cloudflare Apps
Testing
Blitz.io is a self service load and performance testing platform. It's a new offering from Mu Dynamics, leaders in the application testing space, and we're thrilled to make Blitz instantly available to CloudFlare customers right now as a CloudFlare App....
September 16, 2011 9:23PM
CloudFlare Tips: 5 Frequently used CloudFlare API calls
API
Challenge Page
Product News
Developers
Tips
As many of our Facebook fans and Twitter followers may have noticed recently, CloudFlare has been spending a fair amount of time recently asking what we can do to improve the service....
September 14, 2011 6:22AM
Favris is CloudFlare Winner at TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon
Cloudflare Apps
Disrupt
TechCrunch
Hackathon
Early Saturday afternoon, hundreds of hackers filled tables in a cavernous building in San Francisco, staking out their power cords and testing the Internet connection. This was the start of TechCrunch Disrupt's 2011 SF hackathon....
September 09, 2011 6:35PM
Pizza, Prizes & Apps at TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon
Cloudflare Apps
Disrupt
TechCrunch
Hackathon
CloudFlare launched about a year ago at TechCrunch Disrupt SF. It's been a pretty incredible year, and it all began at that conference. We're big fans of TechCrunch (even if we lost the competition to a service that reads Wikipedia aloud) and so we wanted to do something to support them this year....
September 08, 2011 9:54PM
Globalsign, CloudFlare & Hacking SSL
HTTPS
SSL
Security
CloudFlare partners with GlobalSign in order to support SSL (Secure Socket Layer) connections through our network. Earlier this week, there were allegations that GlobalSign may have been compromised in some way by a hacker....
September 01, 2011 12:07PM
CloudFlare Selected as a 2012 Technology Pioneer
Awards
CloudFlare is excited to announce our selection as a 2012 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. The Forum's Technology Pioneers represent the most innovative companies worldwide, poised to make a significant, positive impact on business and society....
August 29, 2011 8:12PM
A Quick Update on Page Views
Analytics
Page Views
About a month ago I wrote a blog post titled: When Is a Page View Not a Page View.
It explained how CloudFlare counted page views differently than beacon-based analytics systems like Google Analytics....
August 27, 2011 9:29PM
Cloudflare Tips: Top Tips when activating through a Cloudflare Hosting Partner
Tips
Onboarding
CloudFlare is a service that utilizes proprietary technology to make websites run safer and faster around the world. We currently run 12 data centers (with more on the way) on three continents to provide static content caching, bot filtering and more for all of our users....
August 26, 2011 9:56PM
Come On Irene: Surviving a Hurricane
Always Online
Hurricane
As you may have heard, there's a hurricane (Irene) about to hit the east coast of the United States. We just got word from our data center in Ashburn, VA that they have taken precautions to help weather the storm....
August 25, 2011 6:06PM
Haileo App Matches Contextual Ads to Images and Video
Cloudflare Apps
Advertising
At CloudFlare, we appreciate deep technology applied to solve hard problems in an easy-to-use manner. Our newest CloudFlare App, does just that: Haileo helps you make money from your images and videos....
August 25, 2011 12:54AM
Apache Killer Terminated: Zero Day Exploit, Zero Day Fix
Attacks
Post Mortem
Early this morning word spread that there was a zero day exploit dubbed the "Apache Killer." The exploit uses malformed Apache byte-range headers to crash the web server. The exploit is effective against the latest versions of Apache as well as versions back to v1.3....
August 22, 2011 11:11PM
Welcome Citizens of CloudFland!
Growth
Page Views
Community
Milestones
Our History
We crossed a milestone today: 312M people passed through CloudFlare's network in the last 30 days. That may seem like a strange number for a milestone, but it also happens to be the total population of the United States (the third most populous nation in the world)....
August 22, 2011 6:14PM
Cloudflare tips: Speeding up your WordPress blog
WordPress
Optimization
Best Practices
Tips
WordPress is probably the most popular blogging platform on CloudFlare, with many WordPress users taking advantage of the fact that CloudFlare's free CDN can help speed up their sites by caching static content and distributing that content to CloudFlare's datacenters around the world....
August 20, 2011 3:34AM
EveryDNS Magic Data Liberation Bookmarklet
Data
Free
DNS
At CloudFlare, we believe in giving control back to website owners. This includes the idea that our users' data is theirs. One of the first functions we built was the ability for CloudFlare users to export their DNS files as an industry-standard BIND file....