NANOG - the art of running a network and discussing common operational issues
February 02, 2017 12:15PM
The North American Network Operators Group (NANOG) is the loci of modern Internet innovation and the day-to-day cumulative network-operational knowledge of thousands and thousands of network engineers....
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A Very WebP New Year from Cloudflare
December 21, 2016 2:00PM
Polish
Bandwidth
Compression
Optimization
WebP
Cloudflare has an automatic image optimization feature called Polish, available to customers on paid plans. It recompresses images and removes unnecessary data so that they are delivered to browsers more quickly....
The Internet is Hostile: Building a More Resilient Network
November 08, 2016 6:56PM
DDoS
Mitigation
Attacks
Bandwidth
Salt
The strength of the Internet is its ability to interconnect all sorts of networks — big data centers, e-commerce websites at small hosting companies, Internet Service Providers (ISP), and Content Delivery Networks (CDN) — just to name a few....
How Cloudflare's Architecture Allows Us to Scale to Stop the Largest Attacks
October 26, 2016 1:59PM
DDoS
Attacks
Mitigation
Protection
DNS
The last few weeks have seen several high-profile outages in legacy DNS and DDoS-mitigation services due to large scale attacks. Cloudflare's customers have, understandably, asked how we are positioned to handle similar attacks....
Say Cheese: a snapshot of the massive DDoS attacks coming from IoT cameras
October 11, 2016 1:59PM
DDoS
Attacks
IoT
Reliability
Bandwidth
Over the last few weeks we've seen DDoS attacks hitting our systems that show that attackers have switched to new, large methods of bringing down web applications....
August 17, 2016 5:50PM
Bandwidth Costs Around the World
CloudFlare protects over 4 million Internet properties using our global network which spans 86 cities across 45 countries. Running this network give us a unique vantage point to track the evolving cost of bandwidth around the world....