March 01, 2020 1:00 PM
Looking back at this week's posts on the design, specifications, and performance of Cloudflare’s Gen X servers using AMD CPUs. Every server can run every service. This architectural decision has helped us achieve higher efficiency across the Cloudflare network. ...
January 25, 2019 3:33 PM
At Cloudflare, we aim to make the Internet faster and safer for everyone. One way we do this is through caching: we keep a copy of our customer content in our 165 data centers around the world. This brings content closer to users and reduces traffic back to origin servers....
December 24, 2018 4:00 PM
Fixing slow Time To First Byte by edge-caching HTML with Cloudflare Workers and automatically purging the cache when content changes....
December 24, 2018 4:00 PM
El tiempo hasta el primer byte (TTFB) de un sitio web es el tiempo desde que el usuario comienza a navegar hasta que el código HTML de la página que ha solicitado empieza a llegar....
October 22, 2018 12:27 PM
Cloudflare launches Peering Portal - Beta to allow network operators and hosting providers to explore transit savings, performance benefits and traffic Management opportunities for peering with Cloudflare or hosting a node...
August 21, 2018 9:58 PM
You can now refresh 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache for domain names by using the purge cache tool. This is useful for domain owners who have updated their DNS records and want to make sure it is reflected for people who are using 1.1.1.1 as their public DNS resolver....
August 20, 2018 3:53 PM
A few days ago, Cloudflare — along with the rest of the world — learned of a "practical" cache poisoning attack. In this post I’ll walk through the attack and explain how Cloudflare mitigated it for our customers....
August 09, 2018 3:42 PM
In February, Troy Hunt unveiled Pwned Passwords v2. Containing over half a billion real world leaked passwords, this database provides a vital tool for correcting the course of how the ...
July 31, 2018 3:00 PM
10 million websites, apps and APIs use Cloudflare to give their users a speed boost. At peak we serve more than 10 million requests a second across our 151 data centers. Over the years we’ve made many modifications to our version of NGINX to handle our growth. This is blog post i...
December 14, 2017 4:09 PM
We’re happy to announce that we now support all HTTP Cache-Control response directives. This puts powerful control in the hands of you, the people running origin servers around the world. ...
December 13, 2017 2:00 PM
It is now commonly accepted as fact that web performance is critical for business. Slower sites can affect conversion rates on e-commerce stores, they can affect your sign-up rate on your SaaS service and lower the readership of your content....
April 25, 2017 7:45 AM
Cloudflare provides numerous benefits to ecommerce sites, including advanced DDOS protection and an industry-leading Web Application Firewall (WAF) that helps secure your transactions and protect customers’ private data....
April 14, 2017 3:00 PM
About a month ago, security researcher Omer Gil published the details of an attack that he calls the Web Cache Deception attack. It works against sites that sit behind a reverse proxy (like Cloudflare) and are misconfigured in a particular way....
March 08, 2017 2:01 PM
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....
December 12, 2016 5:15 PM
The load time of your website not only affects your search engine rankings, but is also correlated to the conversion rate on your site....
August 19, 2015 3:46 PM
Today CloudFlare is introducing a new way to purge the cache using Cache-Tags. Cache-Tags are assigned to cached content via a Cache-Tag response header, and are stored as metadata with cached objects so that global purges take only seconds, targeting a granular, finite set of ca...
July 07, 2015 4:20 PM
At CloudFlare, we care a lot about serving requests as fast as possible. Files can be served much faster when already in CloudFlare’s cache....
March 13, 2013 4:52 PM
When you think of San Francisco, undoubtedly one bridge in particular comes to mind - The Golden Gate Bridge....
February 01, 2013 10:27 PM
CloudFlare makes caching easy. Our service automatically determines what files to cache based on file extensions. Performance benefits kick in automatically....
