Holidays - The Cloudflare Blog

December 25, 2018 5:42PM

Concise Christmas Cryptography Challenges 2019

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

December 11, 2018 10:50AM

The truth about Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Traffic Holidays eCommerce Mobile United States

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?...

Simon Moore

December 17, 2015 6:30PM

Vancouver & Montreal, Canada: CloudFlare's latest data centers

Cloudflare Network Canada Data Center North America Holidays

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...

Joshua Motta

November 17, 2014 7:46PM

Prepare Your Site for Traffic Spikes this Holiday Season

Speed & Reliability Holidays eCommerce Rocket Loader Mirage

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....

Andrew A. Schafer

October 31, 2013 1:36PM

Cloud-o-ween

Halloween Holidays Our History

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....

Kenneth R. Carter

December 21, 2012 3:41AM

Hackers love the holidays

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

Holidays , Attacks , DDoS , Reliability

December 17, 2012 10:59PM

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year...For Ecommerce Sites

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

eCommerce , Holidays , Customers , Speed & Reliability

October 26, 2012 5:17PM

The Pumpkin Lady Carves Again

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

Holidays , Halloween , Testimonials

December 15, 2011 12:28AM

Do Hackers Take the Holidays Off?

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

Data , Holidays , Attacks , Traffic , Reliability

November 24, 2011 6:00AM

A Thanksgiving Story: Surviving the Crush of Holiday Traffic

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

eCommerce , Thanksgiving , Holidays

November 24, 2011 1:07AM

Global Thanks

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

Thanksgiving , Community , Holidays

October 26, 2011 4:13PM

Tales From The Pumpkin Patch

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

Halloween , Fun , Holidays , Customers