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Announcing Turnstile, a user-friendly, privacy-preserving alternative to CAPTCHA

September 28, 2022 2:01PM

Any website can use a simple API to replace CAPTCHAs with our invisible alternative, whether they’re on the Cloudflare network or not....

Monitor your own network with free network flow analytics from Cloudflare

September 28, 2022 2:00PM

Birthday Week Free Network Flow Monitoring Magic Network Monitoring Network

Cloudflare is excited to announce that we are releasing a free version of Magic Networking Monitoring (previously called Flow Based Monitoring). Magic Network Monitoring receives network flow data from a customer’s router(s) and provides network traffic analytics via Cloudflare’s dashboard....

Chris Draper

WAF for everyone: protecting the web from high severity vulnerabilities

March 15, 2022 12:59PM

Security Week WAF Managed Rules Free

We are excited to provide our new Cloudflare Web Application Firewall, with a Free Managed Ruleset to all Cloudflare users...

Michael Tremante

Shields up: free Cloudflare services to improve your cyber readiness

March 04, 2022 4:46PM

Cyber Readiness Free Security Project Galileo Athenian Project

Whether you’re a seasoned IT professional or a novice website operator, these free Cloudflare resources are available for you today. Beyond these free resources, there are a few simple steps that you can take to help stay protected online...

James Allworth

Email Routing is now in open beta, available to everyone

February 08, 2022 11:21AM

Email Routing Email Beta Free

Cloudflare Email Routing transitioned from closed beta to open beta. It’s now available to everyone, including free zones...

João Sousa Botto

January 17, 2022 2:19PM

Cloudflare customers on Free plans can now also get real-time DDoS alerts

We’re excited to announce that customers using our Free plan can now get real-time alerts about HTTP DDoS attacks that were automatically detected and mitigated by Cloudflare...

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Omer Yoachimik

DDoS , Alerts , Notifications , Free

January 22, 2021 2:01PM

Introducing Project Fair Shot: Ensuring COVID-19 Vaccine Registration Sites Can Keep Up With Demand

Project Fair Shot provides Cloudflare's new Waiting Room service for free for any government, municipality, hospital, pharmacy, or other organization responsible for distributing COVID-19 vaccines....

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Matthew Prince

Product News , COVID-19 , Free , Better Internet , Project Fair Shot

December 09, 2020 2:00PM

Cloudflare’s privacy-first Web Analytics is now available for everyone

Anyone can now sign up to use Cloudflare’s new privacy-first Web Analytics -- even without changing your DNS settings....

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Jon Levine

Privacy Week , Analytics , Privacy , Free

June 24, 2015 5:40PM

Check out these brand new videos on how to optimize CloudFlare

Someone once said that the best things in life are free and I can’t agree more. I want to draw the attention of the CloudFlare community to a great resource that helps maximize the value of our product....

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Elenitsa Staykova

Free , DNS , Community

July 14, 2012 6:51AM

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....

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Matthew Prince

Cache , Free , Product News , Speed & Reliability

November 14, 2011 6:44AM

2 Petabytes of Bandwidth (and Real Money) Saved

Sometime on Sunday, November 13, 2011 (which was a pretty awesome day on its own, quite aside from this news) we crossed the point of having saved our users 2 petabytes of bandwidth. That's a staggering amount of data....

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Matthew Prince

Milestones , Free , Bandwidth , Ninjas

November 11, 2011 9:33PM

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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Matthew Prince

Free , Our History

October 18, 2011 12:10AM

Robust, Free DNS FTW

Most people don't think DNS is very sexy, but it's critically important to the functioning of the Internet. At its core, the purpose of DNS is to turn a domain that humans can read (example.com) into an IP address that computers can read (192.0.43.10)....

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Matthew Prince

Free , DNS , Speed & Reliability

August 20, 2011 3:34AM

EveryDNS Magic Data Liberation Bookmarklet

At CloudFlare, we believe in giving control back to website owners. This includes the idea that our users' data is theirs. One of the first functions we built was the ability for CloudFlare users to export their DNS files as an industry-standard BIND file....

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Matthew Prince

Data , Free , DNS