CloudFlare's Global Reach
2012-11-02
CloudFlare is based in San Francisco, California, USA but we serve a global audience. Every minute of every day we send and receive traffic from nearly all of the world's networks....
CloudFlare Works with GlobalSign to Make SSL Faster Across the Web
2012-11-01
Earlier this week we announced how CloudFlare enabled OCSP stapling in order to improve our customers' SSL performance. OCSP stapling is awesome and improves SSL performance by as much as 30%. However, it is limited to browsers that support OCSP stapling and only benefits CloudFlare's customers....
What Happens When a Hurricane Hits the Web
2012-10-31
Now that Hurricane Sandy has passed and the flood waters have begun to recede, we wanted to recap what we saw over the last 24 hours across the CloudFlare network....
Deep Inside a DNS Amplification DDoS Attack
2012-10-30
A few weeks ago I wrote about DNS Amplification Attacks. These attacks are some of the largest, as measured by the number of Gigabits per second (Gbps), that we see directed toward our network....
OCSP Stapling: How CloudFlare Just Made SSL 30% Faster
2012-10-29
This week CloudFlare is announcing several things we're doing to significantly improve the performance of SSL. Too few sites are secured with SSL. One of the reasons sites don't implement SSL is that it can slow down web performance. ...
Sandy, Meet CloudFlare
2012-10-28
There is a large hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean which is likely to come on-shore in the Eastern United States late tomorrow. Dubbed Sandy, the current track of the hurricane has it making landfall around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
The Pumpkin Lady Carves Again
2012-10-26
With Halloween around the corner, I caught up with one of our customers, the husband and wife team behind Pumpkinlady.com. If you haven't been to their website, it offers a range of pumpkin carving stencils and accessories for the holiday season...
WSJ: CloudFlare Named Most Innovative Internet & Networking Company, Second Year in a Row
2012-10-15
We just got word from the Wall Street Journal that CloudFlare was named the Most Innovative Internet & Networking Company of 2012. This is the second year in a row that CloudFlare has won this award. ...
CloudFlare and StopBadware partner to make the Web a better place
2012-10-05
CloudFlare and StopBadware go way back. Even before CloudFlare was founded, our founders had been working with the StopBadware team to help make the Web a safer, better place for everyone. ...
CloudFlare Partners with Parallels To Bring Web Performance and Security to 10 Million SMBs
2012-10-04
Parallels makes it easier for service providers, like webhosts, to grow their business with service delivery software and a robust partner ecosystem....
Happy Second Birthday CloudFlare!
2012-09-27
Michelle, Lee and I started working on CloudFlare back in early 2009. It took about a year and a half for us to fully bake the idea, hire a team, write the code, build the start of a network, sign up beta customers to kick the tires, and then finally release CloudFlare to the public....
CloudFlare protects Einstein's brain!
2012-09-25
CloudFlare protects a lot of websites - from eCommerce websites to blogs to SMBs to government sites, and everything in between....
CloudFlare’s Newest App Partner: Prosperent’s ProsperLinks
2012-09-25
CloudFlare is excited to announce our newest app, Prosperent's ProsperLinks. Their affiliate tool is a very simple way to earn extra revenue on your content without diminishing your readers' experience....
How to Launch a 65Gbps DDoS, and How to Stop One
2012-09-17
Yesterday I posted a post mortem on an outage we had Saturday. The outage was caused when we applied an overly aggressive rate limit to traffic on our network while battling a determined DDoS attacker. ...
Post Mortem: What Yesterday's Network Outage Looked Like
2012-09-16
Yesterday, around 16:36 GMT, we had an interruption to our network services. The interruption was caused by a combination of factors. First, we had an upstream bandwidth provider with some network issues that primarily affected our European data centers....
What It's Like to Launch at TechCrunch Disrupt
2012-09-10
CloudFlare launched almost exactly 2 years ago at the first TechCrunch Disrupt SF. It was an incredible experience for us and we owe a significant amount of our success to the stage Disrupt provided us. ...
SmartErrors: Decrease Your Site's Bounce Rate
2012-09-05
Visitors dread them, publishers fear them and we've all seen them. Page Not Found errors (also known as 404s) are a common occurrence on the web where content is constantly created and discarded. However, few things increase a site's bounce rate faster. ...
Alex Danyluk from Parallels on integrating CloudFlare - “What your company is offering is awesome”
2012-08-28
Alex has 25 years experience in B2B hosting, web and video conferencing, mobile, voice, VoIP, call center, Internet, and data network products and services. Currently, Alex is the Sr. Director ISV & SaaS Alliances at Parallels....
Turning "I'm Under Attack" into "I'm Doing Some Good"
2012-08-28
CloudFlare's I'm Under Attack mode allows our customers to, at the click of a button, tell us that they are experiencing an attack and enable automatic protection. It works by slowing down visits to the web site that's under attack and performing extra work to identify malicious visitors. ...
Dax Moreno from PEER 1 on acquisitions, expansions and announcements
2012-08-27
Dax has more than 10 years of experience in the technology industry. Currently the General Manager of ServerBeach, which is part of PEER 1 Inc., Dan has spent time in sales, support, business development, and leadership roles at various technology companies....