2011-05-26

Yesterday our CEO and co-founder, Matthew Prince, dropped in on TechCrunch Disrupt in NYC to give an update on CloudFlare and to make a few announcements. CloudFlare couldn't have been more excited to present at TechCrunch Disrupt and debut our CloudFlare Apps and Rocket Loader services. You can tell by watching Matthew's presentation that we've been busy. We've also received some great media clips, including articles from TechCrunch and Robert Scoble - complete with a video of Matthew and ...

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  Kristin Tarr

2011-05-26

CloudFlare is a service that has powerful underlying technology. We run 10 (with more coming) data centers around the world and do DNS, caching, bot filtering and more for all of our users. Despite all of this technology, our goal is to make the service simple for our users to use....

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  Michelle Zatlyn

2011-05-25

CloudFlare launched at TechCrunch Disrupt eight months ago in San Francisco. It was an exciting time for our entire team and early supporters. So, when we got the invitation to talk about our progress at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York City, it felt only right to launch something new once again....

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  John Roberts

2011-05-20

Some people from Texas were confused when we said we brought up our data center in Paris. They thought we meant Paris, Texas, not Paris, France. We wanted to end that confusion as quickly as possible, so we're turning on the Dallas (Texas) data center too....

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  Matthew Prince

2011-05-20

It was croissants, brie, and crêpes around the CloudFlare office today as our Paris data center went live. Paris joins Amsterdam as CloudFlare's second European data center. Amsterdam has traditionally been our busiest data center. ...

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  Matthew Prince

2011-05-18

We always talk about how CloudFlare gets smarter, and we do that in a variety of ways. One of the ways is that we look at changes in traffic to a site. If there is a big change, then our system automatically starts to investigate whether it is legitimate traffic or an attack. ...

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  Michelle Zatlyn

2011-05-17

This morning we crossed a milestone: delivering a sustained average of 2,000 page views per second. Peak traffic is even higher. ...

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  Matthew Prince

2011-05-16

CloudFlare now supports CNAME Flattening, which is a better solution to this same problem. Read more in our knowledge base. ...

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  Matthew Prince

2011-05-13

We finished our update to our Amsterdam data center over night. Previously, we had used leased equipment in Amsterdam to power CloudFlare's service. While it worked ok, it wasn't specifically optimized for the network-heavy loads a service like ours creates. ...

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  Matthew Prince

2011-05-12

In CloudFlare's relentless effort to make the web faster and safer worldwide, we're excited to announce our newest data center came online last night: Hong Kong. Approximately 10% of the traffic to CloudFlare's network currently originates from Hong Kong and China. ...

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  Matthew Prince

2011-05-10

Last week Google Analytics announced that they would begin integrating Site Speed tracking. This is an awesome new way for site administrators to see how well their pages are performing. CloudFlare has always been a fan of Google Analytics. ...

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  Matthew Prince

2011-05-09

CloudFlare is excited to announce that the WordPress performance plugin W3 Total Cache (W3TC) now fully integrates CloudFlare's performance and security. CloudFlare and W3TC's missions are aligned: making sites perform as fast as possible....

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  Matthew Prince

2011-05-03

CloudFlare's newest data center just started receiving traffic. Located just over the river from Manhattan in New Jersey, the latest facility is already taking load away from our facility in Ashburn, VA. ...

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  Matthew Prince

2011-05-03

Some of the techniques that CloudFlare uses to make sites faster and safer have generally been around and used by the Internet Giants for some time. In other places, CloudFlare is breaking new ground in offering state-of-the-art technologies to increase performance and security. ...

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  Matthew Prince

2011-05-02

The news of Osama bin Laden's death last night caused us to investigate what searches people were running that led them to a CloudFlare-powered site....

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  Matthew Prince

2011-05-01

On Thursday, April 29, CloudFlare won the Judge's award at Under The Radar, an event showcasing new technology in the Silicon Valley. Since CloudFlare launched six months ago at TechCrunch Disrupt, we've saved 1000 years of time for web surfers....

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  Michelle Zatlyn

2011-04-25

We just turned on our latest data center in Los Angeles. In its first minute, the facility processed more than 30,000 requests. We expect that number to rise over the next 24 hours. ...

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  Matthew Prince

2011-04-22

Last night CloudFlare hosted a Hybrid DB meetup where Ian Pye, our lead Analytics Engineer, presented on the data infrastructure at CloudFlare. He discussed how CloudFlare looked at several NoSQL and SQL solutions and ended up with a hybrid model, SortaSQL....

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  Kristin Tarr

2011-04-21

Many of our customers love CloudFlare's statistics report because the information available differs from other services providing analytics. One frequent request is that customers would like to be able to look at the individual IP hits coming to their site. ...

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  Damon Billian

2011-04-14

CloudFlare loves threat data. CloudFlare's sytem continually gets smarter through a variety of ways, including through user-reported data. So for example, users can add IP and IP ranges to their Block List. This information is fed back to the CloudFlare system benefiting the entire community....

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  Damon Billian