Post Mortem: The Ugly, the Bad & the Good
2012-02-24
Last night was not our finest hour. Around 07:30 GMT, we were finishing up a push of a new DNS infrastructure. The core of what this new update was built to do is make DNS updates even faster. ...
Social Media and Community Management Meetup
2012-02-24
We're excited to announce that we are hosting a Social Media and Community Management meetup at the CloudFlare HQ in San Francisco on Thursday, March 1. ...
Introducing Page Rules: Advanced Caching (Including Configurable HTML Caching)
2012-02-22
On Monday, CloudFlare officially announced Page Rules. The new feature allows you to customize behavior on a page-by-page basis. The previous two blog posts have outlined how you can turn off CloudFlare's features based on URL patterns, or accomplish advanced URL forwarding....
Introducing Page Rules: URL Forwarding
2012-02-21
In the last blog post, I introduced Page Rules and showed how you could use it to control CloudFlare's features like Apps, Performance, and Security settings on a page-by-page basis. Here I'm going to explain how you can use the same Page Rules interface to enable URL forwarding....
Introducing Page Rules: Fine Grained Control over CloudFlare's Features
2012-02-20
CloudFlare is provisioned by DNS. That means that, from the beginning, you've been able to turn CloudFlare on or off on a subdomain level. From the CloudFlare DNS Manager. Often, however, users have wanted finer-grained control. ...
CloudFlare Is a Community
2012-02-17
Today, CloudFlare adds more than 250 customers every ~6 hours, but getting our first 250 took several months and a lot of faith. When we started working on CloudFlare, an employee at a major CDN company warned us that we had no idea all the crazy things people did with their websites....
CloudFlare at Parallels Summit
2012-02-08
CloudFlare is going to be at the Parallels Summit in Orlando next week, February 14-16. We are offering complimentary limousine transfers from the Orlando International Airport (MCO) to the Gaylord Palms Resort. Ride in style and reserve your spot today!...
CloudFlare's Miami Data Center Now Online
2012-02-03
We're happy to announce that CloudFlare's Miami data center is now online. Our 14th data center has been in the works for some time now. The new facility, which is among our largest, will serve much of Central and South America....
CloudFlare Helping IPv6 Reach Escape Velocity
2012-02-02
On January 26, we joined the "World IPv6 Launch" being organized by The Internet Society. If you haven't heard about it, it is an effort to encourage companies commit to "permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services" by 6 June 2012....
TODAY Show Traffic Spike No Problem For Khataland
2012-01-26
Today comes every day. But promotion on the TODAY Show comes along rarely, if at all. The TODAY Show is the top morning TV show in America, with more than 5 million viewers each day....
Introducing CloudFlare's Stop Censorship App
2012-01-16
CloudFlare, as a service, illustrates the power of using DNS to make the Internet better. Unfortunately, some current legislation up for consideration in the United States illustrates the power of using DNS to make the Internet worse. ...
CloudFlare Expanding the IPv6 Web
2012-01-12
We regularly monitor the Alexa top 1 million websites for trends. Specifically, we've been tracking how many of them support IPv6 connections. The numbers are still low but have been improving. ...
What Is CloudFlare?
2012-01-06
I just got off the phone with a reporter. Like many reporters or analysts we talk to, she wanted to put CloudFlare into a defined category. Specifically, she wanted to call us a content delivery network (CDN) and compare us with companies like Akamai or Amazon's CloudFront. ...
CloudFlare Has Been Nominated for a Crunchie!
2012-01-05
CloudFlare is a Crunchie finalist in the category for Best Cloud Service in 2011. We need your help and your vote to win the category! The Crunchies are supported by VentureBeat, TechCrunch and GigaOm. ...
App: ShareAndTell Pro Makes Sweepstakes Easy
2012-01-04
ShareAndTell Pro is a social sweepstakes and rewards platform that lets you set up giveaways on your website and Facebook page. ShareAndTell Pro is now available as a CloudFlare App. ...
2011: The Year of the DDoS
2011-12-21
As the year comes to a close, we've been assembling trend data for 2011. One of the most interesting has been the rise of denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Controlling for CloudFlare's growth, we've seen a 700% increase in DDoS attacks over the course of the year....
App: Goodbye Apture, Hello Highlight
2011-12-19
Since its June introduction as a CloudFlare App, Apture's contextual search service has been popular. Thousands of CloudFlare customers installed the app. In November, we heard that Apture was shutting down their service, as part of their acquisition by Google. ...
CloudFlare Uses Intelligent Caching to Avoid the Bot Performance Tax
2011-12-16
In 2004, Lee Holloway and I started Project Honey Pot. The site, which tracks online fraud and abuse, primarily consists of web pages that report the reputation of IP addresses. ...
Do Hackers Take the Holidays Off?
2011-12-15
I was talking last week with Shawn Graham, a reporter at Fast Company, and he asked a simple but interesting question: do hackers take the holidays off?...
100 Billion Page Views
2011-12-09
In the next few hours, CloudFlare will cross having served more than 100 billion page views over the last year. We've been growing very quickly. To give you a sense, a quarter of the total page views for the year (about 25 billion) has come in just the last 30 days....