What We Just Did to Make SSL Even Faster
2012-12-11
A little over a month ago, we published a couple of blog posts about how we were making SSL faster. Specifically, we enabled OCSP stapling across our network....
App: iubenda generates fast, easy, simple privacy policies
2012-12-10
Almost every website needs a privacy policy. In most countries, it's legally required, and it helps build trust with visitors. ...
Pushing Nginx to its limit with Lua
2012-12-08
At CloudFlare, Nginx is at the core of what we do. It is part of the underlying foundation of our reverse proxy service. In addition to the built-in Nginx functionalities, we use an array of custom C modules......
Efficiently compressing dynamically generated web content
2012-12-06
With the widespread adoption of high bandwidth Internet connections in the home, offices and on mobile devices, limitations in available bandwidth to download web pages have largely been eliminated....
CloudFlare and Parallels to Bring Website Performance and Security to Millions of SMBs
2012-12-04
In early October we quietly announced our partnership with Parallels, a global leader in hosting, cloud services enablement and desktop virtualization....
Syrian Internet access reestablished starting 1432 UTC
2012-12-01
Syria has reestablished partial connectivity to the Internet. The following map of BGP connectivity shows Syria's 29386 network connected to multiple networks outside Syria....
How Syria Turned Off the Internet
2012-11-29
Today, 29 November 2012, between 1026 and 1028 (UTC), all traffic from Syria to the rest of the Internet stopped. At CloudFlare, we witnessed the drop off. We've spent the morning studying the situation to understand what happened. ...
Choosing a Two-Factor Authentication System
2012-11-28
We've been thinking about how to best implement two-factor authentication to better protect our customers' accounts for quite some time now. When, about 6 months ago, my account was targeted by hackers the importance of a good account security became clear. ...
Two-factor Authentication Now Available
2012-11-28
With web performance and security being the core of CloudFlare, we are always looking for ways to improve not just our customers' website security, but their account security as well. Therefore, we are excited to now offer two-factor authentication for all CloudFlare accounts....
Ceasefires Don't End Cyberwars
2012-11-27
There is a significant conflict in the Middle East. As has been widely reported, along with the physical confrontation between the Israelis and Palestinians, there have been widespread cyber attacks....
SEO and your website
2012-11-19
We get a lot of questions from our customers about CloudFlare and how we impact SEO. So when SEO.com signed up for CloudFlare, I thought it would be a great opportunity to talk to an expert to get the scoop on all things SEO. ...
Do you want to work with Go?
2012-11-18
It's no secret that CloudFlare has adopted Go for some production systems; we've written about our use of Go in the past. But over time it's become clear to us that Go is an important language for the sort of high-performance, highly-concurrent software we have to write....
The many sites of CloudFlare
2012-11-09
Each day I get to trade notes with CloudFlare customers. I'm constantly amazed by the diversity of businesses that use the service from around the world. I wanted to share some stories from some of our customers about their experience on CloudFlare....
How to choose a payment platform: a CloudFlare + Braintree meetup
2012-11-08
We are looking forward to co-hosting a meetup next week on Wednesday, November 14, with Braintree, the fastest growing payments platform for online and mobile commerce. ...
CloudFlare London Meetup
2012-11-07
We're having a CloudFlare London Meetup tomorrow night (Thursday, November 8). Three CloudFlare employees will be there: Dane, John and Ian. Come have a beer and exchange ideas with the CloudFlare crew at the Old Coffee House on Beak St....
Why Google Went Offline Today and a Bit about How the Internet Works
2012-11-06
Today, Google's services experienced a limited outage for about 27 minutes over some portions of the Internet. The reason this happened dives into the deep, dark corners of networking. ...
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....