Tagged "Holidays"

December 25, 2018 5:42PM

We've put together some Christmas Cryptography questions. Do you think you can solve them?...

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  Junade Ali
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  Louis Poinsignon

December 11, 2018 10:50AM

Something we all see and hear a lot about at this time of year are Black Friday (23 November this year) and Cyber Monday (26 November) - but just how important are these days on the Internet?...

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  Simon Moore

December 17, 2015 6:30PM

With the holiday season in full swing, it's only fitting that we continue to spread cheer, joy and a faster Internet around the world. To start the season we begin in Canada with NHL rivals Montreal and Vancouver, our 70th and 71st points of presence (PoPs) globally. Montreal and Vancouver, the 2nd and 3rd largest Canadian metropolitan areas, respectively, join our existing PoP in Canada's largest, Toronto. Together, CloudFlare's network in Canada is now milliseconds away from the country's 31 million Internet users. As of now, the web sites, mobile apps and APIs of all CloudFlare customers are delivered at a cool 6.1 million times the speed of the fastest slapshot (for the curious, the current NHL speed record belongs to Zdeno Chára of the Boston Bruins, whose slapshot clocked 108.8 miles per hour / 175.1 kilometers per hour). Latency matters Canada...

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  Joshua Motta

November 17, 2014 7:46PM

The holiday season is approaching, and everyone is thinking about gifts for their friends and family. As people increasingly shop online, this means huge spikes in traffic for web sites---especially ecommerce sites....

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  Andrew A. Schafer

October 31, 2013 1:36PM

Over the weekend, I happened by a pumpkin carving contest in Monterey. One of the winning pumpkins was a low-relief scene of a pirate ship. The hull was created by carving the pumpkin in the traditional way....

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  Kenneth R. Carter

December 21, 2012 3:41AM

Looking at the latest DDoS attack statistics from CloudFlare's network, it seems that hackers love the holidays....

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  John Graham-Cumming

December 17, 2012 10:59PM

Forecasters have estimated that online holiday shopping will account for almost 25 percent of total ecommerce sales in 2012. That's more than $54 Billion dollars in online transactions....

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  Kristin Tarr

October 26, 2012 5:17PM

With Halloween around the corner, I caught up with one of our customers, the husband and wife team behind Pumpkinlady.com. If you haven't been to their website, it offers a range of pumpkin carving stencils and accessories for the holiday season...

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  Kristin Tarr

December 15, 2011 12:28AM

I was talking last week with Shawn Graham, a reporter at Fast Company, and he asked a simple but interesting question: do hackers take the holidays off?...

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  Matthew Prince

November 24, 2011 6:00AM

This is the story of two things that are deeply American: post-Thanksgiving shopping and scrappy entrepreneurs. On the fourth Thursday in November, the United States celebrates Thanksgiving. The Friday after, known as Black Friday, is considered the official start of the holiday shopping season....

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  Matthew Prince

November 24, 2011 1:07AM

It's almost time at CloudFlare headquarters, in San Francisco, California, USA, to celebrate Thanksgiving. This holiday brings together family and friends to enjoy a meal and remember the people and events for which we are grateful....

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  John Roberts

October 26, 2011 4:13PM

Last week CloudFlare received a call from the team at The Pumpkin Lady. They are currently preparing for their busiest week of the year and were looking to CloudFlare to help with their increase in traffic.As you may tell, pumpkinlady.com is a website dedicated to pumpkin carving....

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  Kristin Tarr