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....
Jared Ewy from name.com talks community management, culture and doing what you love
2012-08-27
Jared is the online "face" of name.com. He tweets (a lot) and keeps the branded conversation going on Facebook and all other social media platforms....
David Gardner on new acquisitions and announcements
2012-08-24
Endurance International Group is a leading provider of hosting, domains and online solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. EIG serves more than two million customers through 40 distinct brands. ...
Joe Brinkman discusses the new CMS: Cloud, Mobile, Social
2012-08-23
Joe is a co-founder and technical fellow at DotNetNuke. He is an avid technologist with a broad spectrum of experience in a variety of development languages and technologies....
Maxim Weinstein - Infected computers can compromise a website
2012-08-22
Maxim has been leading StopBadware since 2007. He serves on several malware-related working groups, speaks regularly at conferences, and serves as a subject matter expert for journalists. In 2009, he was recognized by SC Magazine as one of the year's "information security luminaries."...
Seoul, Korea: CloudFlare's 23rd Data Center
2012-08-22
We just turned on our latest data center in Seoul, Korea. It's our 23rd data center and the last of the 9 new cities as part of this latest data center expansion. Seoul expands our presence in Asia to five data centers for the Asia-Pacific region....
Shridhar Luthria gives inside look at one of the world’s largest web service providers
2012-08-22
Shridhar is ResellerClub's business head and leads all business activities and initiatives. He has been steering the team since inception and has helped the company grow from a start-up to the world's most popular platform for domain names....
Gabriel Fontaine on keeping customers happy and what’s new at Verio
2012-08-21
Verio is the recognized industry leader in delivering online business solutions to SMBs worldwide. Distributed through its network of OEM and via Verio channel partners, Verio's solutions provide web hosting, application hosting and SaaS applications that enable SMBs to drive online success....
Warsaw, Poland: CloudFlare's 22nd Data Center
2012-08-21
Hot on the heels of launching our new data center in Stockholm, Sweden we just turned up our newest facility in Warsaw, Poland. That makes 22 data centers worldwide, and 8 covering Europe. ...
Stockholm, Sweden: CloudFlare's 21st Data Center
2012-08-21
CloudFlare's data center expansion continues. If you're keeping score at home, before today we had 20 data centers worldwide. Today we add our 21st in Stockholm, Sweden. ...
Elya McCleave from SoftCom talks customer experience and support
2012-08-20
Elya has over 10 years of extensive experience in the web hosting industry. As the VP of Customer Care she is responsible for all aspects of SoftCom's Customer Support including management of all the internal and external teams and vendors....
Updating Policies
2012-08-20
Back in late 2009, CloudFlare's service began to take shape and our website first went online. While in the early days I had contributed to CloudFlare's early code, we quickly hired engineers to join Lee's team who were far smarter than I. ...