CloudFlare's Global Reach
November 02, 2012 8:19 PM
CloudFlare is based in San Francisco, California, USA but we serve a global audience. Every minute of every day we send and receive traffic from nearly all of the world's networks....
Happy Second Birthday CloudFlare!
September 27, 2012 7:55 PM
Michelle, Lee and I started working on CloudFlare back in early 2009. It took about a year and a half for us to fully bake the idea, hire a team, write the code, build the start of a network, sign up beta customers to kick the tires, and then finally release CloudFlare to the public....
What It's Like to Launch at TechCrunch Disrupt
September 10, 2012 3:35 PM
CloudFlare launched almost exactly 2 years ago at the first TechCrunch Disrupt SF. It was an incredible experience for us and we owe a significant amount of our success to the stage Disrupt provided us. ...
Non-Latin/UTF8 International Domains (IDNs) Now Fully Supported
April 09, 2012 11:03 PM
One of the strangest questions I get when talking about CloudFlare is: "How are you ever going to expand your customer base beyond Silicon Valley?" ...
Check out CloudFlare's New UI
March 31, 2012 6:48 PM
CloudFlare has been beta testing a new account interface for several months with many of our followers on Facebook and Twitter. This week, we rolled out the new interface to all CloudFlare users. ...
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February 17, 2012 10:46 PM
CloudFlare Is a Community
Today, CloudFlare adds more than 250 customers every ~6 hours, but getting our first 250 took several months and a lot of faith. When we started working on CloudFlare, an employee at a major CDN company warned us that we had no idea all the crazy things people did with their webs...
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January 06, 2012 10:09 PM
What Is CloudFlare?
I just got off the phone with a reporter. Like many reporters or analysts we talk to, she wanted to put CloudFlare into a defined category. Specifically, she wanted to call us a content delivery network (CDN) and compare us with companies like Akamai or Amazon's CloudFront. ...
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December 16, 2011 8:28 PM
CloudFlare Uses Intelligent Caching to Avoid the Bot Performance Tax
In 2004, Lee Holloway and I started Project Honey Pot. The site, which tracks online fraud and abuse, primarily consists of web pages that report the reputation of IP addresses. ...
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December 09, 2011 4:49 AM
100 Billion Page Views
In the next few hours, CloudFlare will cross having served more than 100 billion page views over the last year. We've been growing very quickly. To give you a sense, a quarter of the total page views for the year (about 25 billion) has come in just the last 30 days....
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December 06, 2011 1:49 AM
CloudFlare Wins Audience Choice Award for Fastest Growing Cloud Computing Company
During the Up 2011 Cloud Computing Conference in Mountain View, CA, Matthew Prince (CloudFlare CEO) was on hand to give a presentation about CloudFlare and discuss our growth as a nominee for the Fastest Growing Cloud Computing Company award....
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November 12, 2011 2:56 AM
Receiving the WSJ Award for Most Innovative Internet Technology Company
A few weeks ago the Wall Street Journal named CloudFlare the most innovative Networking & Internet Technology of 2011. We were pretty flattered given that winners from other categories included IBM for Watson......
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November 11, 2011 9:33 PM
No Payola Here. Period.
We regularly get requests to provide a free paid account in exchange for promoting CloudFlare. I may be naive, but I was surprised to learn how many web companies go along with these arrangements — or even suggest them themselves. ...
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October 19, 2011 4:44 PM
New Pages
We like the Spartan feel of our site, but one of the requests that a number of people have requested is more detail on how CloudFlare works. We've quietly been adding more detail on various pages linked off the footer of the pages on the site. ...
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October 15, 2011 7:11 PM
CloudFlare's Middle Earth Adventure
In the summer of 2010, before CloudFlare's public launch, we took the team to Vegas to celebrate our first 100 websites. This summer, we crossed more than 100,000 websites using CloudFlare so we decided to head out on another team retreat....
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