2011-04-01

It is a beautiful morning in San Francisco and the office was full of April Fool's jokes. The creativity was spearheaded by Matthieu, who recruited Matthew and Jason to help him execute several ideas. The pranks included wrapping Lee's desk in parcel paper, packaging Ian's desk in bubble wrap, controlling Sri's computer remotely with a foot and making my desk look like it just stepped into a flurry of sticky notes. It was a fun way to start everyone's day. Thanks Matthieu! And then, after al...

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  Michelle Zatlyn

2011-03-31

A few weeks ago, Metallica signed up for the CloudFlare service. I reached out to the network admin to find out why Metallica decided to use CloudFlare, and this is what he had to say....

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  Damon Billian

2011-03-23

In February, CloudFlare packed up our first office in Palo Alto and headed up the 101 to San Francisco. The new office is located in the heart of San Francisco's SOMA district, complete with an one block walk to Caltrain, the Giants stadium and Blue Bottle Coffee....

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  Michelle Zatlyn

2011-03-16

A guest post is by Brad Litwin at A2 Hosting, one of the CloudFlare Hosting partners. They asked to talk about how CloudFlare is helping their customers. Learn more about the CloudFlare hosting partner program....

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  Guest Author

2011-03-16

The CloudFlare team takes a great deal of pride in listening to the feedback of our users. We're pleased to announce that we recently released a beta version of our CloudFlare Joomla extension that will help you get the most out of using Joomla and CloudFlare together. ...

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  Damon Billian

2011-03-12

Last week the CloudFlare team opened our new San Francisco office to our users and friends for an open house / loft party. We had The Peelers, a terrific local mashup band, entertain the crowd while everyone sipped drinks and snacked on great food from San Francisco street cart vendors....

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  Matthew Prince

2011-03-09

CloudFlare launched to the public at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference on September 27, 2010. We were named the Most Innovative Company at the conference and came in second in the overall competition. Recently we were invited by TechCrunch to write an update on what's happened since our launch....

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  Matthew Prince

2011-03-02

CloudFlare, with the help of many of our community members, has recently added support for 8 additional languages on the CloudFlare challenge page....

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  Damon Billian

2011-02-25

ForumCon attracted forum owners from all over the world and we got to meet a lot of interesting people. Some of the key things we heard was that unlike other types of websites, forums had to have the ability for its members to post comments and connect in real-time....

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  Damon Billian

2011-02-11

We wanted to review some of the most frequently used CloudFlare settings that people use (or need to know about) on the CloudFlare 'Settings' page. ...

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  Damon Billian

2011-02-04

I run a small technology firm and write on my blog GabeArnold.com. I focus on techniques and technology like Cloudflare that help small business owners grow and succeed. ...

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  Guest Author

2011-02-03

Today is Groundhog Day: the day on which a groundhog (named Phil) crawls out of his hole in Punxsutawney, PA and either sees his shadow, meaning we're in for six more weeks of winter, or does not, in ...

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  Matthew Prince

2011-01-29

CloudFlare gets quite a bit of traffic from Egypt -- the country is consistently in the top-20 originators of visitors to our network. That is, until last night when Egypt shut down the Internet. Here is a graph showing traffic to our network from Egypt. ...

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  Matthew Prince

2011-01-21

My name is Ruben Orozco, and I'm the Founder of Tweetfind.com. When I'm not working on @TweetFind.com, a Twitter directory to bring Consumers and Businesses together, I work as a Computer Administrator for a High School in Santa Barbara, CA....

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  Guest Author

2011-01-19

We're happy to release today a couple APIs that allow web developers to integrate CloudFlare directly into their web applications. CloudFlare DNS / Threat Control API CloudFlare Settings API If you're a web developer, what could you do with these APIs? Well, you could.......

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  Matthew Prince

2011-01-14

One of the benefits of CloudFlare is that it provides broad, effective security for any website. CloudFlare is a first line of defense against all sorts of threats from comment spammers to automated crawlers that don't follow robots.txt....

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  Damon Billian

2011-01-05

CloudFlare protects your website from malicious attacks by stopping the request before it reaches your server. Often these requests are from automated bots crawling your website looking for a vulnerability. Sometimes, the threat is a web surfer whose computer has been compromised....

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  Damon Billian

2011-01-01

We were just issued a new IP address range which we will begin to deploy soon. The new range is: 173.245.48.0/20 (173.245.48.0 - 173.245.63.255)...

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  Matthew Prince

2010-12-21

Since signing up for any new service can often lead to a number of questions, I created a guide of things you should know after activating CloudFlare....

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  Damon Billian

2010-12-17

We generate a lot of logs. To give you some sense, across the CloudFlare network every minute we write a half a Gigabyte of just log data. Collecting, reducing, sorting, and displaying that data back to you is one of the biggest challenges of running a service like CloudFlare....

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  Matthew Prince