Protect Your Sites With Rapidly Deployed WAF Rules
2014-01-21
An attack on your site could be catastrophic. Even a small attack can have major implications. Responding quickly to an attack is imperative. ...
Moving beyond the DC Circuit Court Decision on the FCC’s Open Internet Order
2014-01-17
CloudFlare is a strong supporter of a free and open Internet. We believe in both fair and free markets and effective regulation to achieve that goal. That is why we read the recent United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit’s opinion in Verizon v. FCC with great interest....
A Day in the Life of a Technical Support Engineer at CloudFlare - Marty Strong, London
2014-01-16
As a Technical Support Engineer I get to work with many different members of the CloudFlare family and with customers from all around the world. Each day is very different to the next, and of course, some days stand out more than others....
Understanding and mitigating NTP-based DDoS attacks
2014-01-09
Over the last couple of weeks you may have been hearing about a new tool in the DDoS arsenal: NTP-based attacks. These have become popular recently and caused trouble for some gaming web sites and service providers....
Bienvenido a Chile: Cloudflare's 24th Data Center Now Live!
2014-01-08
Cue up the fuegos artificiales again! Our data center in Valparaiso, Chile marks the 24th in our global network, our second south of the equator and the first in Latin America. ...
How the NSA (may have) put a backdoor in RSA’s cryptography: A technical primer
2014-01-06
There has been a lot of news lately about nefarious-sounding backdoors being inserted into cryptographic standards and toolkits. One algorithm, a pseudo-random bit generator, Dual_EC_DRBG, was ratified by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2007. ...
Welcome 1&1 Internet, CloudFlare’s Newest Optimized Partner!
2014-01-06
On a rainy day back in March 2013, a small team from CloudFlare found ourselves bonding over a beer and a schnitzel in Karlsruhe, Germany — the home of 1&1 Internet. 1&1 is one of the leading hosting companies in the world, the second largest shared host by number of customers. ...
2013: Rebuild the Engine; 2014: Step on the Gas
2013-12-31
It's been a busy 2013 here at CloudFlare. By all external measures it was a terrific year. We grew page views, revenue and traffic across our network – all by more than 400%. We added terrific partners and high profile customers. ...
Using CloudFlare to mix domain sharding and SPDY
2013-12-26
It’s common knowledge that domain sharding, where the resources in a web page are shared across different domains (or subdomains), is a good thing. ...
Keeping our open source promise
2013-12-22
Back in October I wrote a blog post about CloudFlare and open source software titled CloudFlare And Open Source Software: A Two-Way Street which detailed the many ways in which we use and support open source software....
Introducing USV: CloudFlare's newest investor
2013-12-17
It's been an exciting day here at CloudFlare. We are happy to finally introduce our newest investors, Union Square Ventures. This blog post was written by Brad Burnham, Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures, and previously appeared on the USV blog....
Ask CloudFlare: How do I make my website faster?
2013-12-10
We get asked this question all the time: How do I make my website faster? So, on Thursday, we're holding a webcast to go through our recommendations and also answer your questions live....
Red October: CloudFlare’s Open Source Implementation of the Two-Man Rule
2013-11-21
At CloudFlare, we are always looking for better ways to secure the data we’re entrusted with. This means hardening our system against outside threats such as hackers, but it also means protecting against insider threats. ...
The two reasons to be an engineer at CloudFlare
2013-11-12
If you're thinking about joining a startup as an engineer we'd like you to think of CloudFlare. The two most important reasons to think of CloudFlare are... because of who your colleagues would be and who our customers are (and who their customers are)....
What we've been doing with Go
2013-11-11
Almost two years ago CloudFlare started working with Go. What started as an experiment on one network and concurrency heavy project has turned into full, production use of Go for multiple services....
Cloud-o-ween
2013-10-31
Over the weekend, I happened by a pumpkin carving contest in Monterey. One of the winning pumpkins was a low-relief scene of a pirate ship. The hull was created by carving the pumpkin in the traditional way....
A (Relatively Easy To Understand) Primer on Elliptic Curve Cryptography
2013-10-24
Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) is one of the most powerful but least understood types of cryptography in wide use today. At CloudFlare, we make extensive use of ECC to secure everything from our customers' HTTPS connections to how we pass data between our data centers....
CloudFlare And Open Source Software: A Two-Way Street
2013-10-07
CloudFlare uses a great deal of open source and free software. Our core server platform is nginx (which is released using a two-clause BSD license) and our primary database of choice is postgresql (which is released using their own BSD-like license). ...
How I created the viral sensation: isthegovernmentopen.com
2013-10-04
A few years ago, amidst the final crunch of a project deadline, a friend and former colleague looked me directly in the eye and said, "It's like I don't even know how to build a website anymore."...
Patching a WHMCS zero day on day zero
2013-10-03
A critical zero-day vulnerability was published today affecting any hosting provider using WHMCS. As part of building a safer web, CloudFlare has added a ruleset to our Web Application Firewall (WAF) to block the published attack vector....
