June 07, 2017 1:47PM
How we built rate limiting capable of scaling to millions of domains
Attacks
Rate Limiting
Optimization
Network
Security
Reliability
Back in April we announced Rate Limiting of requests for every Cloudflare customer. Being able to rate limit at the edge of the network has many advantages: it’s easier for customers to set up and operate, their origin servers are not bothered by excessive traffic or layer 7 attacks....
November 30, 2016 1:00AM
Not one, not two, but three undersea cables cut in Jersey
Outage
France
Europe
Network
Sometime before midnight Monday (UK local time) a ship dropped its anchor and broke, not one, not two, but three undersea cables serving the island of Jersey in the English Channel....
August 18, 2016 2:01PM
The Cuban CDN
Network
Bandwidth Costs
Legal
Politics
Mobile
On a recent trip to Cuba I brought with me a smartphone and hoped to get Internet access either via WiFi or 3G. I managed that (at a price) but also saw for myself how Cubans get access to an alternate Internet delivered by sneakernet....
July 08, 2014 11:00AM
ReplayLastGoal and CloudFlare: Fanning World Cup Flames
Traffic
Network
The World Cup is, at once, exhilarating and agonizing, and not just for those lucky souls in Rio or Manaus, folks working from home, or anyone else sitting happily in front of a TV....
May 31, 2013 12:10PM
Today's Network Issue
Network
Post Mortem
Today at 16:13 UTC a large amount of traffic began hitting our Los Angeles data center. We have an in-house team that monitors our network 24x7x365 and immediately all their alarms went off....
May 07, 2013 3:13PM
How Syria Turned Off the Internet (Again)
Today at 18:48 UTC, Syria dropped off the Internet. Based on the data we collect from our network, as well as reports from other organizations monitoring network routes, it appears that someone systematically withdrew the BGP....