September 26, 2018 12:00 PM
At Cloudflare, our mission is to help build a better Internet. That means making the Internet faster, safer and smarter, but also more efficient alongside our cloud partners. ...
September 25, 2018 12:01 PM
Today Cloudflare opened the door on our beta deployment of QUIC with the announcement of our test site: cloudflare-quic.com. ...
September 25, 2018 12:00 PM
Six o’clock already, I was just in the middle of a dream, now I’m up, awake, looking at my Twitter stream. As I do that the Twitter app is making multiple API calls over HTTPS to Twitter’s servers somewhere on the Internet....
September 24, 2018 12:01 PM
Today we announced support for encrypted SNI, an extension to the TLS 1.3 protocol that improves privacy of Internet users....
September 24, 2018 12:00 PM
Cloudflare launched on September 27, 2010. Since then, we've considered September 27th our birthday. This Thursday we'll be turning 8 years old. Ever since our first birthday, we've used the occasion to launch new products or services....
September 29, 2017 1:01 PM
It all comes down to the speed of light. It always does. The speed of light limits the latency possible between someone using the Internet and the application they are accessing. ...
September 29, 2017 1:00 PM
You see this everywhere, but as a lifelong gamer, my personal favorite example is probably graphics cards. In the '90s, graphics hardware generally provided a fixed set of functionality. ...
September 28, 2017 1:00 PM
In an abstract sense Cloudflare Warp is similar; its connection strategy punches a hole through firewalls and NAT, and provides easy and secure passage for HTTP traffic to your origin. ...
September 27, 2017 1:00 PM
Cloudflare turns seven years old today. We launched on September 27, 2010. It was only a few days after our launch that we got our first request to support video streaming. Yet, until today, we'd avoided it....
September 27, 2017 1:00 PM
Every day, close to 1 billion people watch video through Cloudflare. That’s 100 petabytes of video every month. Last year, video made up 73% of all internet traffic, which is why earlier today we announced Cloudflare Stream....
September 26, 2017 1:00 PM
Today we announced Geo Key Manager, a feature that gives customers control over where their private keys are stored with Cloudflare. This builds on a previous Cloudflare innovation called Keyless SSL and a novel cryptographic access control mechanism....
September 26, 2017 1:00 PM
Cloudflare’s customers recognize that they need to protect the confidentiality and integrity of communications with their web visitors....
September 25, 2017 1:00 PM
When building a DDoS mitigation service it’s incredibly tempting to think that the solution is scrubbing centers or scrubbing servers. I, too, thought that was a good idea in the beginning, but experience has shown that there are serious pitfalls to this approach....
September 25, 2017 1:00 PM
In the past, we’ve spoken about how Cloudflare is architected to sustain the largest DDoS attacks. During traffic surges we spread the traffic across a very large number of edge servers. ...
September 25, 2017 1:00 PM
This is the week of Cloudflare's seventh birthday. It's become a tradition for us to announce a series of products each day of this week and bring major new benefits to our customers. We're beginning with one I'm especially proud of: Unmetered Mitigation....
September 27, 2016 6:26 PM
Today, Cloudflare turns six years old, and if you’re reading this on our blog, you may have noticed that we look a bit different today than the cloudflare.com that you’ve visited in the past. More on that a bit later in this post....
September 28, 2015 2:00 AM
Today is September 27, 2015. It's a rare Super Blood Moon. And it's also CloudFlare's birthday. CloudFlare launched 5 years ago today. It was a Monday. While Michelle, Lee, and I had high expectations, we would never have imagined what's happened since then....
August 14, 2015 7:48 PM
CloudFlare turns 5 years old this September. It's been an amazing ride since our launch. Before we launched at TechCrunch Disrupt on September 27, 2010, we'd signed up about 1,000 beta customers. It took us nine months to get those first customers. ...
September 27, 2014 11:11 AM
Since CloudFlare launched to the public four years ago today, we've always considered September 27th our birthday. We like to celebrate by doing something nice for our team and also for our customers. ...
