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....
And The Winners Are...
2011-12-09
We are excited to announce three winners for the WordCamp Las Vegas ticket giveaway. The lucky winners are: Chirag Patel, Michael Scott and Ben Hebert! Congratulations winners and have a great time at WordCamp Las Vegas. ...
CloudFlare Wins Audience Choice Award for Fastest Growing Cloud Computing Company
2011-12-06
During the Up 2011 Cloud Computing Conference in Mountain View, CA, Matthew Prince (CloudFlare CEO) was on hand to give a presentation about CloudFlare and discuss our growth as a nominee for the Fastest Growing Cloud Computing Company award....
Is Cyber Monday Real?
2011-12-02
Black Friday is the biggest offline shopping day of the year in the United States. However, the biggest online shopping day of the year in the United States is known as Cyber Monday....
Calling All WordPress Users - CloudFlare's Giving Away Two Tickets to WordCamp Las Vegas!
2011-12-01
Do you have a WordPress blog and love to have a good time? Then enter for a chance to win a ticket to one of the best WordPress events of the year - WordCamp Las Vegas! We're giving away tickets to two lucky WordPress users....
A Thanksgiving Story: Surviving the Crush of Holiday Traffic
2011-11-24
On the fourth Thursday in November, the United States celebrates Thanksgiving. The Friday after, known as Black Friday, is considered the official start of the holiday shopping season. ...
Global Thanks
2011-11-24
It's almost time at CloudFlare headquarters, in San Francisco, California, USA, to celebrate Thanksgiving. This holiday brings together family and friends to enjoy a meal and remember the people and events for which we are grateful....
App: PunchTab Provides Instant Site Loyalty and Rewards Program
2011-11-19
How much do you appreciate your site's visitors? With the newest CloudFlare app, you can show them. PunchTab instantly adds a loyalty and reward program to your site, for free....
Cloudflare Tips: Troubleshooting Common Problems
2011-11-18
Debugging technical issues online can be tricky. There are many moving pieces; it can be an isolated network connection with the ISP, an issue with your server or one of CloudFlare's data centers could be temporarily having a problem....
SOPA Could Create New Denial of Service Attack, Powered by Law not Botnets
2011-11-16
The United States House of Representatives is considering the Stop Online Piracy Act, known as SOPA. Companies including Google, Zynga, Facebook, Yahoo, AOL, and Mozilla, along with organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have been sharply critical of the law....
CloudFlare Product Updates: Updated WordPress Plugin, Invoices & New CloudFlare IP addresses
2011-11-15
As you may have noticed recently, our engineers have been releasing a bunch of new products over the past few weeks. In addition to a vastly improved and cheaper option for adding CloudFlare SSL to domains, we've also made a few changes that may have been missed with the SSL changes....
2 Petabytes of Bandwidth (and Real Money) Saved
2011-11-14
Sometime on Sunday, November 13, 2011 (which was a pretty awesome day on its own, quite aside from this news) we crossed the point of having saved our users 2 petabytes of bandwidth. That's a staggering amount of data. ...
Receiving the WSJ Award for Most Innovative Internet Technology Company
2011-11-12
A few weeks ago the Wall Street Journal named CloudFlare the most innovative Networking & Internet Technology of 2011. We were pretty flattered given that winners from other categories included IBM for Watson......
No Payola Here. Period.
2011-11-11
We regularly get requests to provide a free paid account in exchange for promoting CloudFlare. I may be naive, but I was surprised to learn how many web companies go along with these arrangements — or even suggest them themselves. ...
Groovy Baby! CloudFlare's London Data Center Now Online
2011-11-10
Cloudflare's London data center is now online. We're already doing more than 1 Gbps of traffic through LHR, most of which would previously have been routed to Amsterdam....