Cloudflare has been a long time supporter of AMP, an open-source markup language 1.5 billion web pages are using to accelerate their mobile web performance. Cloudflare runs Ampersand, the only alternative to Google’s AMP cache, and earlier this year we launched Accelerated Mobile Links, a way for sites
CloudFlare Keeps TheBayLights.org Running Bright
The Art When you think of San Francisco, undoubtedly one bridge in particular comes to mind - The Golden Gate Bridge. This year, however, the Bay Bridge is getting its moment in the spotlight thanks to Words Pictures Ideas, a CloudFlare customer. Words Pictures Ideas services brands and organizations in
Edge Cache Expire TTL: Easiest way to override any existing headers
CloudFlare makes caching easy. Our service automatically determines what files to cache based on file extensions. Performance benefits kick in automatically. For customers that want advanced caching, beyond the defaults, we have Cache Everything available as Page Rules. Designate a URL and CloudFlare will cache everything, including HTML, out at
Always Online v.2
The video on CloudFlare's home page promises that we will keep your web page online "even if your server goes down." It's a feature we dubbed "Always Online" and, when it works, it's magical. The problem is, Always Online doesn&
Introducing: Single File Cache Purge
CloudFlare has supported a way to purge your cache for the last year. Unfortunately, it was all or nothing. While that, for practical purposes, didn't cause a significant performance hit for most websites, since the cache would be rebuilt with the most popular files automatically and quickly, it
We Saved Users Half a Petabyte Last Month!
I was just looking over our daily stats report and noticed something incredible. In the last 30 days, CloudFlare saved our users more than half a petabyte of data they would have otherwise had to transfer from their servers. That's 500 terabytes, 500 million megabytes, or approximately the
How CloudFlare Rocket Loader Redefines the Modern CDN
At CloudFlare, we built our own CDN from the ground up. We used the latest technologies like solid state drives for screaming I/O and Anycast routing and geo load balancing to make it as fast and efficient as possible. But we didn't want our efforts to make
Introducing the CloudFlare Cache Purge Feature
Caching is great. CloudFlare makes sites faster in part by taking the static portions of your site and moving them closer to the visitors to your site. CloudFlare is smart about only caching static objects so you can run a dynamic, database-driven site and it will behave as you expect.