July 02, 2012 6:44AM
Caching the uncacheable: CloudFlare's Railgun
Speed & Reliability
Railgun
Product News
Cache
CloudFlare recently rolled out a premium service called Railgun that's available to CloudFlare Business and Enterprise customers. Railgun is web optimization software that's designed to speed up the delivery of content that cannot be cached....
July 01, 2012 8:28PM
Protecting CloudFlare sites from phishing
Phishing
Abuse
As the internet has grown, phishing attacks have continued to be a problem. While better awareness and focus on security has helped reduce their number, the RSA and other services tracking phishing still show that somewhere between 20-30,000 phishing attacks generally occur every month....
June 30, 2012 8:56PM
Thoughts on the AWS outage: making the cloud more resilient to failure
AWS
EC2
Outage
A huge storm rolled across the eastern United States last night, topping trees and knocking out power. Amazon Web Services (AWS) had one of their primary data centers in Virginia lose power....
June 29, 2012 3:15AM
How to make SSL fast
OCSP
Speed & Reliability
SSL
TLS
Speed
spdy
Security
HTTP, the protocol of the web, is unencrypted by default. That means it is trivial for someone using the same local network as you to spy on all the data you send to and receive from most websites....
June 28, 2012 7:48AM
Why mobile performance is difficult
Mobile
TCP
Speed & Reliability
Mirage
Polish
spdy
Rocket Loader
Product News
Mobile web browsing is very different, at the network level, to browsing on a desktop machine connected to the Internet. Yet both use the very same protocols, and although TCP was designed to perform well on the fixed-line Internet, it doesn't perform as well on mobile networks....